Ethnographic House Museum aljustrel
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Aljustrel - a small village on the outskirts of Fatima. Aljustrel became famous because of the amazing events that called the miracle of Fatima. It was in this village were born and lived Martha Francisco, Jacinta and Lucia Marta dos Santos - children, who in 1917 was the Virgin Mary.

Ethnographic House Museum is located in a house on the same street as the house where the children were located, who saw "the miracle of Fatima", as they call this phenomenon the Virgin. House-Museum is located next to the house where he lived Lucia dos Santos, and formerly belonged to Lucia's godmother. Since 1969, the building was the center of regional ethnography. After the house was bought, renovated and opened as a museum, the aim of which was to show the way of life of the inhabitants of the village in 1917 and tell you about the time crafts: weaving, tailoring and shoemaking craft business. It is worth noting that since the Fatima miracle houses on this street have not changed.

The museum's collection consists of paintings, which depict scenes from the life of the village of the late XIX century, including three of its small inhabitants - the witnesses of a miracle. Also among the exhibits are tools, household items, which were collected from the time when there was the miracle of Fatima, antique furniture, pots and earthenware pot tools of peasant labor. In the courtyard stands the current bread oven and a granary. Visitors can see the tools in the forge looked like while corral and the workplace of the mason.

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