Present day Chandor was once the ancient city of Chandrapur, which served as the capital of Kadamba dynasty until the 11th century, before the rulers moved to Govepuri now known as Goa Velha. In 1929, Fr. Heras a noted architect…
The Corona Virus has put the world on pause, sweeping across the globe, it continues to claim lives every single day. However, the 1918 (Spanish) Flu may have been the deadliest pandemics in human history, with a death toll ranging…
Hi All, We are Rubaica, Ronit and Nichole. Join us as we cycle from New Market to Old Market sharing Margao’s wonderful history and heritage with you.. Thanks to Lynn and his forum – My Margao. Let’s start with…
The load bearers weren’t always animals in Goa – like oxen. People, labourers and the like, carried baskets laden with goods from one village to the next. This journey on foot often took a day or more. These laterite posts…
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In a practice that dates back generations, children from various neighbourhoods make an effigy of an Old Man and burn him at midnight to commemorate the ringing out of the old and the ringing in of the new. Made of…
Cycle ride to Palolem and back, going via Agonda and return by Karmal Ghat. Distance 105.05km Started at 7:29 AM on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Check out the ride on Relive! https://www.relive.cc/view/vZqNPVWZ5GO
Cycling Goa organised the second race of the Goa Time Trial 2020 Championship on Sunday, the 13th of December 2020, at Chandreshwar, Quepem. The 4.04 km long route with 255 mts elevation to the top of the highest mountain in…
The Zuari River – the largest river in the state of Goa is 92 km long, it is a tidal river which originates at Hemad-Barshem in the Western Ghats and flows in the southern-western direction through the talukas of Tiswadi,…
This monument just outside the Colva cemetery was commissioned in the late 60s by Mrs. Leonor de Loyola Furtado e Fernandes to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the apparition of The Blessed Virgin Mary to three children – Lucia, Jacinta…