Our Lady of the Immaculate Church

 

Our Lady of the Immaculate Church is the first church of Goa, built in 1541. In the year 1871, the great bell belonging to the Augustinian Church of Our Lady which is in Old Goa was brought here. The feast of the Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception church is celebrated on 8th December every year.

Goa : Saturday Night Market at Arpora

Saturday Night Market at Arpora. The market has hundreds of stalls, with all kinds of accessories and is abuzz with music and food. You can sit on a bench and watch the world go by. You'll see the most outlandish sights and some interesting people from all parts of the world walking along with a drink in one hand and a shopping list in the other! There are all sorts of cuisine available to choose from Greek, English, South Indian, Thai, Italian, Goan, Nepali, Indian, Indian-Chinese and desserts. The market sees at least 20,000 people come in . . .

The Indian part of the market has Kashmiri items, wooden articles, silks, pashminas, masks, antiques and home accessories. The part of the market run by foreigners has leather masks,  feathers, clothes popularized by hippies.  And as a touch of exotica there are fortune-tellers and tarot card readers. There is something for everyone . . .

The atmosphere is very vibrant, colourful & rocking all night . . .

Goa

Fontainhas is an interesting quarter in Panaji, it is one of the old Portuguese districts located west of the Ourem River. The terra cotta tiled houses with neoclassical facades have retained their colored exteriors. The yellow, ochre, blue and green paint is from the period when the Portugese insisted that only churches could be painted white.

The narrow cobbled streets of Fontainhas, named for the natural spring Fonte Phoenix, is reminiscent of the Mediterranean. The whitewashed Chapel of St. Sebastian contains a number of interesting features including a crucifix that hung in the Palace of the Inquisition in Old Goa and the Viceregal Palace.

Fontainhas and San Tome, another old quarter, provide great atmosphere