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Obidos, Alcobaça, Nazaré, Batalha, Fatima
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Program
Travel northwards and arrive at the beautiful and very ancient walled town called
Obidos – medieval city surrounded by the castle with picturesque narrow streets,
whitewashed houses, iron balconies, flower pots in very window. Inhabited by
Romans and Arabs, this was the dwelling place of the Portuguese court for more
than 500 years.
Then drive to Alcobaca to visit the XII century Church of Alcobaca Monastery. It
has the longest church in Portugal, an amazing construction which resisted time
and earthquakes and where you can see how Cistercian monks used to live. See
also the tombs of king Peter and Ines de Castro, the 2 lovers of the most dramatic
Portuguese love story. Free time for lunch in Nazare, the most colorful of
Portuguese fishing villages and the richest fishing region of Portugal, where one
can see fishermen and their wives wearing traditional clothes and find a beautiful
handicraft.
Proceed to Batalha Monastery, a XIV century masterpiece in Gothic style. Here
you can admire the highest church in Portugal, the Royal Pantheon of the
Portuguese “Conquerors of the Sea”, the beautiful manueline cloister and the
“Unfinished Chapel”.
Finally Fatima - the Center of Christian faith and a local of world's pilgrimage. See
the chapel where Our Lady appeared to the shepherds, the Basilica and the vast
square where people kneel up to the place where they can place a candle, pray
and make a vow to Our Lady. Religious services can be attended. See also
Aljustrel where the shepherds lived.
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…The 3 secrets from Our Lady of Fatima: 1-the first war would finish but if people didn't
stop offending God, another worse one would come. 2-That there would be a revolution in
Russia and persecutions against the church; everyone should have faith to withstand the
advance of evil (showing the vision of hell, a lot of fire that seemed to be under the earth
where demons and souls were put in human forms burning among screams and wailings of
pain. 3-The Pope revealed partially the third secret on his visit to Fátima on the 13th of
May of 2000: after Our Lady said the two secrets, we have seen an angel a little farther up
with an incandescent sword on the left hand that seemed to set the world on fire. But the
flames of the sword went out with the shine coming from the Virgin's right hand, pointed in
its direction. Several Bishops, priests, religious and nuns going up a mountain, at the top
of which there was a big cross. The Pope, before arriving there, crossed a city in ruins and
he went praying for the dead bodies that he found on the road. Arriving to the top of the
mountain he was shot by soldiers and likewise were also shot religious people and several
people of several social classes…
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