Christianity sacred sites in Santarém, Portugal

Chapel of the Apparitions (Our Lady of Fátima)

Part of Fatima

Fátima, Santarém, Portugal

The Chapel of the Apparitions stands at the precise location where the Virgin Mary appeared to three Portuguese shepherd children in 1917....

Church of Santa Maria de Marvila

Santarém, Santarém, Portugal

Behind a restrained Manueline doorway in Santarém's old town, Santa Maria de Marvila hides an interior almost entirely resurfaced in seventeenth-century azulejo tile — a...

Church of Santa Maria do Olival

Tomar, Santarém, Portugal

Founded by Gualdim Pais, the Templar master who established Tomar itself, Santa Maria do Olival served as the Order's spiritual seat and burial pantheon in Portugal....

Church of São João Baptista, Tomar

Tomar, Santarém, Portugal

Facing the statue of the Templar founder of Tomar across the Praça da República, the Church of São João Baptista has served as the town's Igreja Matriz since the fifteenth...

Church of the Holy Miracle of Santarém

Santarém, Santarém, Portugal

In the historic center of Santarém, a small Gothic-to-Renaissance church — now the Santuário do Santíssimo Milagre, formerly the parish church of Santo Estêvão — houses a...

Convent of Christ

Tomar, Santarém, Portugal

Founded in 1160 by the Knights Templar and later inherited whole by the Portuguese Order of Christ, this hilltop complex in Tomar grew across five centuries of Romanesque,...

Convent of Saint Francis, Santarém

Santarém, Santarém, Portugal

Founded in 1242 by King Sancho II for the newly arrived Franciscan order, the Convento de São Francisco grew from a mendicant ideal of austerity into a royal pantheon...

Fatima

Fátima, Santarém, Portugal

On a hillside in central Portugal, three shepherd children encountered something that would draw millions....