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Aljustrel (Fátima)

human settlement in Portugal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ107157276 ↗
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Aljustrel is a hamlet on the outskirts of Fátima, Portugal, in the municipality of Ourém. It was the birthplace of Lúcia dos Santos, and Francisco and Jacinta Marto, known worldwide as the "three little shepherds of Fátima" or the "three child seers", and the setting for some of the events during the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima. There is now a small house-museum there.

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The public source identifies “Aljustrel (Fátima)” as human settlement in Portugal. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Aljustrel, Fátima and human.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aljustrel (Fátima)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.