Goa Cruise

Goa Cruise

A Portuguese Indian city

When you are on a cruise to India you just have to take time out to enjoy MadgaonGoa’s second city.

Surrounded by fertile rice paddy and plantain groves, the town has always been an important agricultural market, and was once a major religious centre, with dozens of wealthy temples and dharamshalas – however, most of these were destroyed when the Portuguese absorbed the area into their Novas Conquistas (“New Conquests”) during the seventeenth century.
Today, Catholic churches still outnumber Hindu shrines, but Madgaon has retained a cosmopolitan feel. A short auto-rickshaw ride north of the centre to Largo de Igreja square at the north end of town, Church of the Holy Spirit is the main landmark of the square, and indeed Madgao’s dishevelled colonial enclave. It was built by the Portuguese in 1675, and ranks among the finest examples of late Baroque architecture in Asia with an interior dominated by a huge gilt reredos dedicated to the Virgin. At one-time a byword for oriental splendour, Portugal’s former capital in India, Old Goa, was virtually abandoned following malaria and

Cruises van / naar Goa in 2025

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