page_title: Fátima, Portugal
section_title: Civic
hierarchical_section_title: Fátima, Portugal / Architecture / Civic
caption_attribution_description: Fatima 0746
context_page_description: Fátima is a city in the municipality of Ourém, Beira Litoral Province, in the Central Region and Médio Tejo intermunicipal community of Portugal, with 71.29 km² of area and 11,788 inhabitants. Its population density is 162.7 inhabitants/km². The homonymous civil parish encompasses several villages and localities of which the city of Fátima, with a population of 7,756 residents, is the largest.
  The civil parish has been permanently associated with the Marian apparitions that were purportedly witnessed by three local shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in 1917. The Catholic Church later recognized these events as "worthy of belief". A small chapel was built at the site of the apparition, now known as Our Lady of Fátima, beginning in 1918, and a statue of her installed. The chapel and statue have since been enclosed within the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima, a shrine complex containing two minor basilicas. Associated facilities for pilgrims, including a hotel and medical centre, have also been built over the decades within and around the Sanctuary. The city has become an important international destination for religious tourists, receiving between 6 and 8 million pilgrims yearly.
context_section_description: Bus station of Fátima (Portuguese: Estação Rodoviária de Fátima)
  Cistern of Gaiola (Portuguese: Cisterna em Gaiola)
  Cistern of Ramila (Portuguese: Cisterna em Ramila)
  Cistern of Capuchos (Portuguese: Cisterna dos Capuchos)
  Civil Parish Building of Fátima (Portuguese: Junta de Freguesia de Fátima)
  Fountain of Alveijar (Portuguese: Fonte do Alveijar)
  Fountain of Lameira (Portuguese: Fonte da Lameira)
  Fountain of Soudo Well (Portuguese: Fonte em Poço de Soudo)
  Fountain of Vale da Pena (Portuguese: Fonte do Vale da Pena)
  Fountain New (Portuguese: Fonte Nova)
  House of Casal Farto (Portuguese: Casa de Casal Farto)
  Main avenue of Fátima (Portuguese: Avenida de Dom José Alves Correia da Silva)
  Mills of Fátima (Portuguese: Moinhos de Fátima)
  Mills of Fazarga (Portuguese: Moinhos da Fazarga)
  Mills of Giesteira (Portuguese: Moinhos da Giesteira)
  Mill of Ortiga (Portuguese: Moinho da Ortiga)
  Monument of the Three Little Shepherds (Portuguese: Monumento dos Pastorinhos - Rotunda Sul de Fátima)
  Old mill of Ramila (Portuguese: Moinho Arruinado em Ramila)
  Olive Oil Press in Estrada das Matas (Portuguese: Lagar de azeite na Estrada das Matas)
  Porch House with Sundial (Portuguese: Casa Alpendrada com relógio de Sol em Casal Farto)
  Residence of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, visionaries of Fátima (Portuguese: Casa de Francisco e Jacinta Marto, videntes de Fátima)
  Residence of Lúcia dos Santos (Portuguese: Casa de Lúcia dos Santos, vidente de Fátima)
  Threshing-floor of Ramila (Portuguese: Eira em Ramila)
caption: The bus station of Fátima.
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