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What to do and see in Fatima, Central Portugal: The Best Budget-friendly Things to do
Lovely as it is, this little country town of less than 8,000 about 75 miles north of Lisbon wouldn’t be on the radar if it weren’t for its most famous citizens: the three shepherd children who, in 1917, saw monthly visions of the Virgin Mary in the Cova da Iria pasture. Today, the site is marked by the Basílica de Fátima, where pilgrims come on the 13th of every month to honor the Virgin and her young visionaries, especially in May and October, when the apparitions originally began and ended.
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1. Fatima Experience - Tours to Remember
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5.0 based on 161 reviews
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2. Fatima Mini Tours
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5.0 based on 52 reviews
Fatima mini Tours is a professional small tour company based in Fatima. We have a team of experienced and enthusiastic guides who knows about local secrets and are ready to share them with you! We offer wide range of private tours from short 2 hours trips focused on the region of Fatima for those who do not have much time to full one day tours focused on the region of Central Portugal. Our clients can choose between guided tours emphasising cultural or natural heritage or experiences and activities such as Horse rading, Fado concerts or Tasting tour.
3. Basilica de Nossa Senhora do Rosario de Fatima
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4.5 based on 5,063 reviews
This national shrine is the site where three young peasant shepherds spied a "lady brighter than the sun," which was, many believe, the first of six apparitions of the Virgin Mary in this region of Portugal.
Reviewed By 504marynam - Detroit, United States
It takes a full day trip from Lisbon to visit Fatima, Balthahal monastery, Bleeding host church at Santarem and Fatima. We were a group of 15 and we hired a 15 seater mini bus with a driver from the Mundo do Flamingo travel agency. Their charges are very, very reasonable - just 500 euros for 15 of us to visit these 3 sites. The driver was very friendly and engaging. Fatima was awesome. We saw the Lucia, Jacinto and Francisco's humble homes - very touching, we also got to personally meet Sr. Lucia's 99 year old niece. The Via Sacra - way of the cross garden is very calm and beautiful. The highlight of the trip was the candle light procession at 9.30 pm. Don't miss this event. Very beautiful to see Our Lady revered by some many from all over the world. When we reached back to our Lisbon hotel, it was almost 1.00 am! This place is worth visiting.
4. Museu de Cera
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4.5 based on 214 reviews
Reviewed By NewZealand-7
An excellent museum with the Fatima miracles depicted in a wonderful way. Loved standing next to the Pope as well.
5. Basilica da Santissima Trindade
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4.5 based on 1,147 reviews
Reviewed By LostALot22 - Chicago, United States
This church is huge. I was told that it seats 9000. It's across the square from the old church. It is more modern than the other church and very clean in design. I liked it.
6. O Milagre de Fatima - Museu Interativo
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4.5 based on 145 reviews
With the use of multimedia technologies, we have recreated the historical events from the beginning of the twentieth century, the apparitions of the Angel of Portugal, the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima and the Miracle of the Sun.Experience how it happened!
Reviewed By alexdavidwriter - London, United Kingdom
I agree with some of the other reviewers. This small interactive museum should be one of the first things seen when visiting Fatima. It works mostly as a guided visit and the guides do an excellent job of explaining the story of the Fatima apparitions, putting it into historical context and using the visual panels to spotlight aspects of the story. What makes the museum great are the 3D projections of the Virgin Mary’s apparitions. There are three of them and the third one, showing the miracle of the sun, even includes heat sensors to give you the same sensation people had at the time when they they felt the sun descending onto the earth! The museum was very quiet when I visited in November so I had the privilege of getting a personalized tour of my own from my English-speaking guide, which was a great experience. The second part of the tour is smaller and self-guided, and includes some audio of John Paul II’s speeches in Fatima. If you want to learn more details about the story you can visit the Museo de Cera afterwards, but I would really recommend visiting this museum first as it gives a more ‘live’ first impression of the Fatima miracles.
7. Valinhos Sanctuary
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4.5 based on 311 reviews
Reviewed By Jydeoo - Lagos, Nigeria
The path up the little hill to the Valinhos Sanctuary is lined with pious images of the Via Crucis. The Sanctuary itself house a small chapel with a scene of the Crucifixion topside. A good place to pray, and also with magnificent views.
8. Casa De Francisco & Jacinta Marto
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4.5 based on 553 reviews
Reviewed By alittletoolate - Doncaster, United Kingdom
irrespective of your beliefs this is a well maintained simple house that is quite humbling and if you don't mind walking from fatima there is an excellent footpath(via sacra valinhos-aljustrel)that is an absolute pleasure to walk along and do follow every footpath as i am sure what you will see will impress you as much as it impressed me.
9. Casa De Lucia
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4.5 based on 474 reviews
Reviewed By WickedWalt - Baton Rouge, United States
Visiting Lucia's home certainly helps to understand why Mary appeared in such a location. Very devout family. Even more special was to visit with Lucia's 90+ niece who lives across the stree.
10. Paroquia de Fatima e dos Pastorinhos
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4.5 based on 70 reviews
Reviewed By geezerdelmundo - Arden Hills, United States
We inadvertently passed this attractive, but unassuming church on our way to the Fatima shrine. As “luck” would have it, we arrived shortly before 11am Sunday mass. We watched the regular parishioners settle into their places and stayed to participate in a wonderfully ordinary liturgy. What I mean is that the Fatima shrine is so grand that it tempts one to forget that these three children were regular kid from a regular parish community. They were not special in any way, until the Virgin chose them as conduits of her message to the world. We found it helpful to be reminded that God can use ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things.
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