We begin by studying orbifolds, i.e., topological spaces locally homeomorphic to quotients of Rn by finite groups. Then we study Seifert fiber spaces of dimension three which are certain type of foliations by circles that can be seen as fiber bundles over orbifolds. This material is useful in the subsequent study of Thurston model geometries. A Thurston model geometry is a pair (G;X), where X is a connected and simply connected manifold and G is a group of diffeomorfisms of X with certain properties that allow us to find a riemannian metric on X such that G is the group of all isometries. The classification of the model geometries is very useful in the topological classification of manifolds that admit a locally-homogeneous metric and was done by Thurston in Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology, vol.1, Princeton University Press, 1997. Then we give a brief description of each one of these eight geometries and present part of Thurston s classification theorem.