Fatima

I present a crowned place to you which one can compare with Lourdes, it acts of Fatima in Portugal, in addition to the commercial side of the religion which jumps to the eyes, they also carried out a superb basilica, the interior is an incredible beauty.

Here some explanations on this place and what it is judicious to have been held there before:

Fátima is a town in Portugal famous for the religious visions that are said to have taken place there in 1917.

Fátima is a city (cidade) of approximately 10,000 inhabitants located in the district of Santarém in central Portugal, 187 km south of Oporto and 123 km north of Lisbon. Fátima is a freguesia (parish) in the concelho (municipality) of Ourém.

The name of the city (formerly a very small village or place) comes from the Arabic Fahima or Fatima. History or rather legend claims that a Moorish girl with that name around the 12th century converted to Catholicism, then changing her name to Oriana, which gave the name to Ourém, the head of the county.

Fátima's claim to fame is the shrine called the Sanctuary of Fátima, built to commemorate the events of 1917 when three peasant children claimed to have seen the "Virgin of the Rosary", Our Lady of Fatima.

Fátima now attracts hosts of believers from far and wide, particularly on the pilgrimage days, and the shrine has been developed on a correspondingly large scale. The large torch-light processions in the evening are particularly impressive.

The pilgrims gather in Cova da Iria, on a huge esplanade in which is built a little chapel where the Virgin is believed to have appeared to the children. Around the esplanade are a considerable number of shops and stalls selling all kinds of religious articles.

On the far side of the esplanade rises the gigantic basilica, in neo-classical style, with a central tower 65 meters high, the construction of which was begun on 13 May 1928. It is flanked by colonnades linking it with the extensive conventual and hospital buildings. In the basilica are the tombs of two of the three seers, Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto, who died in 1919 and 1920 respectively, and were beatified in 2000. The third seer, Lúcia dos Santos, died in 2005.

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I very much like the contrasts and tonalities of this photo! You managed to retain very fine tonalities of this high-contrast scenery without resorting to the washed out HDR-look that is all too common in Panoramio.

Many thanks