Fátima is a city in the municipality of Ourém, in the Central Region and Médio Tejo inter-municipal community of Portugal. The civil parish has been permanently associated with the Marian apparitions that three local shepherd children purportedly witnessed at the Cova da Iria in 1917 and has become an important international destination for religious tourists, receiving between 6 and 8 million pilgrims yearly.
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in south-western Europe. It is the westernmost sovereign state in mainland Europe, bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal.