<p class="title_brown"><strong>Colonnade</strong></p>

<p class="subtitle_brown">Prayer Area</p>

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To the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima front, whose construction ended in 1953, two large bodies where added, as two large arms which, in the future, would mark indelibly one of the most famous religious landscapes of the contemporary world. In fact, designed from the classicist&rsquo;s canons which at the time dictated aesthetics of the country&acute;s architecture, the arms of the Colonnade that Ant&oacute;nio Lino created for the Shrine of Fatima integrate the international image of Fatima. Over them, one can see the most prominent Portuguese saints, sculpted by important authors (Barata Feyo, Leopoldo de Almeida, Ant&oacute;nio Duarte, &Aacute;lvaro de Br&eacute;e, Soares Branco, Carvalheira da Silva, Irene Vilar, among others), and under its openings one can see the fourteen steps of the way of the cross in ceramic signed in 1955 by Lino Ant&oacute;nio.<br />
Earlier, the ensemble formed by the Basilica and Colonnade begun to be read as visually unitary, functioning, with the monumental stairway, as a scenario for the great celebrations of Fatima, and being an integrant part of them.</p>
