Fátima is one of the largest and most important places of world pilgrimage, with more than 5 million visitors per year. The largest pilgrimations to Fatima occur annually on the 12th and 13th of May and October, being traditionally made on foot. The modern Church of the Holy Trinity, built in 2007, with 125 meters in diameter and almost 9000 places, is a reference point of the Shrine of Fatima, as well as the House of the three shepherds to whom the Virgin Mary appeared..