Happy Easter to all! The Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Imaculada Conceição (1541) is among Panjim‘s signature sights, an obligatory photo stop for every visitor to the city. It was not long ago (when Panjim was still a world-class city) that the Church Square and its surrounds were a pedestrian’s delight, a vibrant evening hangout…
Azad Maidan is the square in the heart of Panjim, originally conceived by the Portuguese as the Largo Afonso de Albuquerque. A brass memorial to the great Goan freedom fighter Dr. Tristão de Braganza Cunha (1891-1958) now occupies its geometric centre. This window to the sky is one of the city’s vital organs, essential to…
Ponte de Linhares, the causeway joining Panjim and Ribandar, was built in 1633, and is acknowledged as a signal feat of engineering. Measuring just under 3 kms in length, the route is flanked by River Mandovi on one side and salt pans embedded in Khazan lands – a remarkable indigenous hydrologic system predating the Portuguese,…
In Panjim our walls feature a real hole-in-the-wall for the city’s bookworms to crawl into. This interstitial temple of learning is, as claimed, “up to date” with the latest rags, a valuable resource for the scholar of gossip. Parking lot just around the corner is unfortunately not “up to date.” …
