Lisbon Trip Overview
This tour will show you one of the most iconic catholic places in the world, visited for thousands of pilgrims every year showing their faith and pray.
Associated with the Marian apparition, witnessed by the three shepherds in 1917, has one of the biggest sanctuaries in the world of our lady of Fátima. Start by visiting the Basilica of our lady with an amazing shrine, the tombs of the little shepherds and the chapel of the apparitions.
You can attend a mess in one of the churches and see that the statue of Virgin Mary is placed in the exact spot where she appeared to the shepherds.
If you’re not catholic don’t worry, you’ll be amazed with the feeling of the size of Fátima and the million devotees that visit it.
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Duration: 6 hours
Starts: Lisbon, Portugal
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Day Trips
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This tour will show you one of the most iconic catholic places in the world, visited for thousands of pilgrims every year showing their faith and pray.
Associated with the Marian apparition, witnessed by the three shepherds in 1917, has one of the biggest sanctuaries in the world of our lady of Fátima. Start by visiting the Basilica of our lady with an amazing shrine, the tombs of the little shepherds and the chapel of the apparitions.
You can attend a mess in one of the churches and see that the statue of Virgin Mary is placed in the exact spot where she appeared to the shepherds.
If you’re not catholic don’t worry, you’ll be amazed with the feeling of the size of Fátima and the million devotees that visit it.
Stop At: Basilica de Nossa Senhora do Rosario de Fatima, Rua de Rainha Santa Isabel 26, Fatima 2495-424 Portugal
The building was designed by the architect Gerardus Samuel Van Krieken and continued by João Antunes, built with limestone of the area. The structure has a colonnade with 200 columns and 14 altars with 17 statues over them. It was blessed on May 13th of 1958.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Capela Das Aparicoes, Cova da Iria Santuário de Fátima, Fatima 2495-580 Portugal
The chapel of apparitions is the principal structure of the shrine of Fátima because it was in that place that our lady appeared and talked with the shepherds. From the six apparitions, five happened in this place where, in her honor, the chapel was built, in 1919.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Basilica da Santissima Trindade, Cova da Iria – Santuario de Nossa Senhora de Fatima, Fatima 2496 Portugal
Due to the high number of pilgrims it was necessary to build a new church. In 1997 the Greek architect Alexandro Tombazis won an international contest done by the shrine to construct the new church. In 2007 the church was dedicated by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone then Secretary of State of the Vatican and legate of Benedict XVI. Inside the church there’s a bronze crucifix above the altar with 3 meters and gold color symbolizing the fidelity to god and holiness.
Duration: 15 minutes
