Fátima and the Sanctuary Basilica Half Day Tour from Lisbon

Description

During your stay in Lisbon, take an afternoon tour to the town of Fátima, one of the most important places of pilgrimage in the Catholic world. With your guide, visit the sites where the Virgin Mary was said to have appeared in 1917 and learn about this incredibly spiritual place. Enjoy free time to explore on your own and attend a mass at Our Lady of Fátima Sanctuary, if you wish. You will also visit Aljustrel, the home of the three children to whom the vision of Our Lady of Fátima (the Virgin Mary) appeared, as well as Valinhos and Loca do Anjo, two other locations where the children reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary.

Meet your guide in central Lisbon or enjoy pickup from your Lisbon hotel, and then relax on the comfortable coach drive to Fátima. This once-sleepy rural village became an important Catholic pilgrimage site in 1917, when three local children claimed to have seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary, also known as Our Lady of Fátima.

With your guide, visit Our Lady of Fátima Sanctuary (Nossa Senhora de Fátima Santuario), a place of worship visited each year by more than four million pilgrims who travel to pay their respects and worship at the shrine. See the Chapel of Apparitions, the place where the Virgin Mary appeared, and see the tombstones of the two of the three shepherd kids who reported the apparition.

You’ll have free time to explore the site at your own pace, enjoy some quiet time on your own and attend mass, if you wish.

Continue your tour to Aljustrel, where the three shepherd children -- Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia -- were born; then head to Valinhos, where Our Lady of Fátima appeared a fourth time in the same year.

Your final stop is Loca do Anjo, where children were visited by the Virgin Mary on two other occasions. Finally, relax in your coach and admire views of the Portuguese countryside on the drive back to Lisbon.

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Schedule details

Departure point

Central Lisbon and centrally located Lisbon hotels

Departure time

2:30pm. Hotel pickups commence approximately 30 - 60 minutes prior to this time; you must contact the local service provider to verify your exact pickup time (contact info will be printed on your confirmation voucher).

Return details

Returns to central Lisbon (Marques de Pombal Square) at approximately 6:30pm