This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless. Whereas the Cmara Municipal de Lisboa begins to demolish the Capital's historic centre for the sake of urban renewal projects in the s, many of the later Fados in the cycle are reset in threatened neighbourhoods and thus serve to denounce changing traditions in the face of progress. The leitmotif of the shuttered windows that links all of the songs in the cycle returns us to Marceneiro's original ballad, in which the wooden curtains kept the nosy neighbours from peeking in, and when the house itself β and Lisbon β was happier.
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