If you happened to have drove through Rua dos Judeus lately, you would have noticed work in full swing at the Augustinian convent : Labourers carrying buckets of mud on their heads, masons assembling laterite blocks, officials pointing into the distance and mumbling something to themselves, trucks pulling up, workers carting away debris – the…
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A short drive past the flying buttresses of the Santa Monica Convent and nestled into the edge of the cliff of the Holy Mount in Old Goa is the oldest surviving church in Goa. Igreja de Nossa Senhora de Rosàrio, or ‘Church of Our Lady of the Rosary’ was one of the first ever religious…
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In the early 1950s, a series of interventions were carried out to revitalize Old Goa, the former capital of the Portuguese Estado India, spearheaded by Architect Baltazar de Castro. Out of these, one particular work of ‘restoration’ was executed which would have a wave of repercussions for generations to come: The plaster of the Bom…
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