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Viceroy Francisco da Gama raised this gate near the Mandovi in 1599 to commemorate Vasco da Gama's arrival in India in 1498, and Portuguese viceroys entered…
Cabo de Rama takes its name from the legend that Lord Rama sheltered on this cape during his exile.
Chapora Fort stands on a headland in Bardez, North Goa, overlooking the Chapora River near Vagator, roughly 10 km from Mapusa.
What UNESCO listed in 1986 is not one building but the whole set of religious monuments in Old Goa, capital of Portuguese India and the centre from which…
Fort Aguada, completed by the Portuguese in 1612, guards the mouth of the Mandovi from the Sinquerim headland — the strongest of Goa's coastal forts and the…
Built in 1550 as a watchtower on the highest point of Santo Estevão island, this was the easternmost defence of the Velhas Conquistas, set there to keep an…
Fort Tiracol sits on a hilltop at the mouth of the Tiracol (Terekhol) River in North Goa, roughly 40 km from Panaji, reached via a ferry crossing from Querim.
Over 4,000 objects from Goa's farming past, implements and vessels and tools, gathered by the artist, curator and restorer Victor Hugo Gomes and open to the…
Adil Shah's Palace in Panaji, the Old Secretariat, currently holds the state's own collection: around 8,000 artefacts across ancient history and archaeology…
Old Goa, or Velha Goa, stands on the bank of the Mandovi a short drive from Panaji — the former capital of the Portuguese Eastern Empire, and still a dense…
The churches and convents of Old Goa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, form the greatest ensemble of Christian heritage in India.
Reis Magos Fort occupies a headland on the northern bank of the Mandovi River in Bardez, Goa, almost directly facing the capital city Panaji across the water.
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