Gabriel Guest House Goa » Aguada fort https://gabrielguesthousegoa.com/blog Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:57:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 goa https://gabrielguesthousegoa.com/blog/?p=260 https://gabrielguesthousegoa.com/blog/?p=260#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:46:35 +0000 http://gabrielguesthousegoa.com/blog/?p=260 Continue reading →]]> Goaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a Paradise on earth, it is the coolest place to be in India. Goa though a tiny state has its own very natural beauty, with its deep blue seas, sparkling water, picturesque view of its rivers, long necked swaying coconut trees, Goa is among the finest family destinations for all groups of ages.  The perfect playground for kids, romantic place for couples, and peaceful atmosphere for the elderly. The Indoportuguese style architecture stand still in some villages.  Fontainhas in Panjim has been declared a cultural quarter shining the life of architecture & culture of Goa.

Goa being under the rule of Portuguese for over 450yrs  has the influence of portuguese culture. Goa presents itself a different picture to the foreign visitor than the other parts of India Goa is famous for its excellent beaches,churches, temples, Besides the various celebration specially new year & carnival attracts a lot of tourist in Goa.There are a few historic world heritage sites such as Bom Jesus of Basilica churches & convents of Old Goa. There are many forts in Goa such as Tiracol, Chapora,Corjuem, Aguada, fort Gaspar Dias, & Cabo de Rama.

Goan cuisine consist of seafood, coconut milk, rice & local spices these are the main ingredients, the goan feni too is very famous specially the pork delicacies are also very popular among the tourist, the flea market and the night market not to forget which make it still more interesting and the night clubbing night makes the youngsters do alittle of activity work besides this there is a lot of exploring work to be done of various beaches and so on.

According to the 2011 census, Goa has a literacy rate of 87% with 90% males & 84% females most students in Goa complete their high school using English as their medium of Instruction.
]]> https://gabrielguesthousegoa.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=260 0 Aquada Fortress( main fort in Goa) https://gabrielguesthousegoa.com/blog/?p=43 https://gabrielguesthousegoa.com/blog/?p=43#comments Sat, 23 Oct 2010 06:35:48 +0000 http://gabrielguesthousegoa.com/blog/?p=43 Continue reading →]]> the Aguada Fort was built in 16th centuary and comprises of lower fort with bastions all around and an upper fort.it  shirts and sea shore and ascends the summitof the bare rocky upland called “Aquada Point”. the upper fort was buith as the  vantage  point to serve as a fort and a watering station to the ships whereas the lower fort offered a safe berth to portuguese ships. the upper fort comprises of a moat, anunderground water storage chamber,lighthouse,gun powder  rooms and bastions. the word Aquada means watering place in portuguese. the underground water storage tank has a capacity to store 23,76,00 gallons of water.it has five divisions and is supported by sixteen huge colums besides the staircase to accesses the bottom.

the light house used to emit the light once every seven minutes. however in 1834, it was updated to emit light every thirty seconds. it has been in disuse since 1976, when the new light house was commissioned.

All this we got to see from Gabriel guest house,calangute Goa. The seight seeing was arranged by  the gabriel guest house, this fort is located very  close to the gabriel guest house calangute, just 12 kms away.  it is also located very close to the calangute beach. gabriel guest house is one of the best guest house in goa which provide you all kind of arrangements.

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