The Inland Forts of Goa
The facade is dominated by a solid wall with two watchtowers on each side. A small cross faces the fort, that has two cannons placed at its entrance - The Inland Forts of Goa - ImageWrighter
The facade is dominated by a solid wall with two watchtowers on each side. A small cross faces the fort, that has two cannons placed at its entrance - The Inland Forts of Goa - ImageWrighter
Travelling Buddhist monks carved these 6th century rock-cut caves out of a single laterite rock. The other legend names them as Pandava Caves, residence of the Pandava brothers from Mahabharata in exile - Looking Beyond the Portuguese at Bicholim in Goa - ImageWrighter
55 kms and an hour and a half later from Sinquerim, where my lodgings were, I reached a dead end into the family plantation of one Patil - Looking Beyond the Portuguese in Goa - ImageWrighter
This name had to be from the same noble class as our Hindu castes, and hence a noble Portuguese family gave the name Figueiredo. It comes from a Knight and has an association with fig trees.” - The Figueiredo House in Goa - ImageWrighter