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   Basilica of Bom Jesus

   A basilica finished in 1605 that holds the body of St Francis Xavier in a silver casket, lowered and shown to the public roughly every ten years. Its laterite walls were stripped of plaster in 1950 and never recoated, which is why it looks different from every other church here.

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   Se Cathedral

   The cathedral of Goa, begun in 1562 and finished in 1619, and the largest church in Asia. One of its two towers fell in 1776 and was never rebuilt; the remaining one holds the Golden Bell, said to be the loudest in Goa.

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   Mangueshi Temple

   A temple at Priol in Ponda, and one of the largest in Goa. The image was moved inland from Cortalim in the sixteenth century to keep it out of reach of the Portuguese Inquisition — which is why nearly every important Hindu temple in Goa stands in this one district.

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   Safa Masjid

   A mosque at Ponda in Goa. It was built in 1560 under the Adil Shahi sultans, which makes it the oldest Islamic building left in Goa and a rare survival of the Portuguese destruction of mosques.

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   Church of St. Francis of Assisi

   A church at Old Goa rebuilt in 1661 on the site of a Franciscan chapel of 1521. Inside are gilded woodwork, frescoes of the life of St Francis, and a floor of carved gravestones from the Portuguese centuries.

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   Goa Chitra Museum

   An ethnographic museum at Benaulim built on one man's collection of the farm implements, kitchen tools and oil presses that Goan villages were discarding. It is arranged to show a working agricultural year.

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   Church of Our Lady of the Rosary

   A church built between 1544 and 1547 on the hill above the river, among the oldest in Goa and Manueline in style. Albuquerque is said to have watched the battle for the city from this spot, and vowed a church if he won.

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   Archaeological Museum and Portrait Gallery

   An archaeological museum in the former convent of St Francis of Assisi at Old Goa, opened in 1964. It holds portraits of every Portuguese governor, hero-stones from Goan villages, and sculpture from the Hindu temples the Portuguese destroyed.

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   Church of St. Cajetan

   A church at Old Goa built by an Italian order in the seventeenth century, modelled on St Peter's in Rome.

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    Rachol Seminary

    A seminary founded by the Jesuits in the 1580s on the site of a fort, and still training priests for the archdiocese. Its church, painted ceilings and library make it the most complete Jesuit complex left in India.

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   Church of St. Augustine, Goa

   The ruins of an Augustinian church completed in 1602 on Holy Hill, abandoned after the order was expelled in 1835 and left to fall. One tower of the facade still stands some 46 metres high, part of the Churches and Convents of Goa on the World Heritage list.

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   Ponda Fort

   A fort at Ponda in Goa. It was built under the Adil Shahi sultans and passed in turn to the Marathas and the Portuguese, taking the full weight of the region's contests.

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   Chapel of our Lady of the Mount

   A chapel on the hill above Old Goa. It was raised to mark Albuquerque's capture of the city in 1510, and from it the churches of the old capital are laid out below.

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   Church of St. Anne, Talaulim

   A church at Talaulim of the late seventeenth century, whose tall facade of laterite and lime is the finest surviving example of Goan baroque. It is part of the World Heritage listing and stands almost alone in the fields.

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   Arch of The Viceroys

   A triumphal arch at Old Goa. The grandson of Vasco da Gama raised it on taking up the governorship, and each new viceroy passed through it on assuming office.

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   St Catherine's Chapel, Old Goa

   A chapel at Old Goa, raised on the spot where Albuquerque took the city, and one of the earliest churches there.

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   Fort of São Tiago of Banastarim

   A Portuguese fort on the right bank of the Cumbarjua canal, holding the eastern ford onto the island of Goa. Raised soon after Albuquerque took the city in 1510 to bar the crossing against the sultanate of Bijapur, it survives now only as fragments of wall above the water.

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   Museum of Christian Art

   A museum of Indo-Portuguese Christian art in the Convent of Santa Monica at Old Goa, showing altarpieces, ivories and processional figures made by Hindu craftsmen for Catholic use — the images changed in their hands.

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   Church of Our Lady of the Snows

   A church at Rachol on the south bank of the Zuari, dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows and serving one of the older parishes of Salcete.

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