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INDIA
GOA
- Churches and convents of Old Goa is the name given by UNESCO to a set of religious monuments located in Goa Velha (or Old Goa), in the state of Goa, India, which were declared a World Heritage Site in 1986.
- Goa was the capital of Portuguese India and Asia. The city of Old Goa was founded in the fifteenth century by the Sultanate of Muslim rulers of Bijapur as a port on the banks of the Mandovi river. The village was taken in 1510 by Afonso de Albuquerque, the first Portuguese Viceroy.
- At its peak it was said to have been a city of over 200,000 inhabitants and was known by the title ‘Rome of the East’, specifically for its splendid and innumerable collection of Cathedrals and churches.
HISTORY
- Missionaries and other religious orders settled in Goa since the sixteenth century, used it as a center for the spread of Catholicism in India.
- The settlers were initially tolerant to Hinduism and other religions, but from 1560 the spread of Catholicism was reinforced by the arrival of the Inquisition in Goa.
- The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the golden age of Goa, which ran a flourishing trade and came to have administrative privileges similar to those of Lisbon.
HISTORY
- These monuments reflect the cultural exchange and legacy of the Portuguese.
- The Viceroy moved to Panjim (Novo Goa) in 1759, and Old Goa lost the capital status officially in 1843.
- In the twentieth century, after several years of hostilities and diplomatic negotiations, Indian troops invaded and annexed Goa ending centuries of the Portuguese presence.
MONUMENTS
Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário
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Sé Catedral of Goa
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Basilica of Bom Jesus
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Chapel of Santa Catarina
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Church of Divine Providence (São Caetano or Saint Cajetan)
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