Portugal is a small south Europe´s country, marked in red in the map. The country is divided in regions: Norte, Centro, Beiras, Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, Alentejo and Algarve. Each region has a capital of district´s city but the country´s capital is Lisbon.

Portuguese costumes Portuguese costume reveals a cultural and ethnic link to their Spanish relatives, with slight divergences to reflect Portugal's longer and distinct history.

Each region of Portugal has its own style of dance and songs. Some of the best examples of the regional dances are the vira, chula, corridinho, tirana and fandango, where couples perform a lively dance usually to a fast beat of hand-clapping, guitars and accordions. During many of these traditional dances, people dress up in a variety of ways ranging from working clothes to colourful costumes.

SOME TRADITIONAL COSTUMES FROM PORTUGAL

This song, we call fado, is closely linked to the academic traditions of the University of Coimbra and is exclusively sung by men

Fandango Ribatejano The choreography is quite simple: on its more frequent setting two male dancers face each other, dancing and tap-dancing one at each time, showing which one has the most lightness and repertoire of feet changes in the tap-dancing.

Traditional Dance Algarve “Corridinho”

Modern Fado – World Patrimony MARIZA