Fatima
- Address:Apartado 31, Fatima
- Hours:Open daily
- Admission:Free
Cultural Experience, Holy Place, Religious Experience, Church / Cathedral, Monument - Historical, Tower
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Fatima, located 88 miles (142 kilometers) north of Lisbon is one of the most important shrines to the Virgin Mary in the world. Here, in 1917, she appeared several times to three shepherd children. The last time, on October 13th 1917, there were 70,000 witnesses to the miracle. A marble pillar with a statue of Our Lady marks the exact spot and four million pilgrims make the journey to see it each year, in the Chapel of Apparitions.
In addition there is a Basilica, the House of Our Lady Dolours, to receive the sick and for retreats. There's also accommodation for up to 250 pilgrims in the House of Our Lady of Carmel and a monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus - a spring whose water brings graces to pilgrims.
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First I have to gripe about other Viator reviewers: Please write more than just "it was excellent" as this tells me
nothing about the tour. Please please please write details, be more descriptive for heavens sake... *Second* Viator can be absolutely WRONG on meeting point details. I almost missed this trip cuz they were wrong as to where to meet, it's not in the square. It's like one block up from the arch to the right at the Yellow Bus company with NO historic Red Tram or whatever. Viator u suuck! The only thing that saved my @ss was that there was a tourism office in the square and they told me where to go with seconds to spare. Even the number to call had nobody to pick up. GRRRR! *** Now then, we went to Fatima 2 days before the big anniversay/holiday they celebrate with a million people. We lucked out, we saw big pilgrim groups, hikers, kneelers, all without the big crowd effect. The place is massive like the Vatican, but the Basilica is not as big but still very impressive, architecture, views, etc. You basically are given free time to go explore, so I just did the basillica, mass area, saw the candle fire area and then went straight to town for shopping and eats. Shopped at both the big square and where they are mixed in with the cafes, one shop i stopped at a young woman was so nice rounding down the prices of everything I asked about without even haggling. Well worth the trip.
This was a wonderful trip to Fatima. We wished we could have spent a little more time there because it would have been nice to attend Mass.
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My tour to Fatima and the others cities was fantastic! And the tour guide Anna knew her fact and made them very interesting. Lunch was absolutely divine. And so was the service.
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The best way to Fatima from Lisbon is by bus which takes about an hour and a half. There is a train but the station is 12 mi (20 km) from Fatima itself, so not very convenient.
