Looking for a bit of a time machine in Goa :)
I’ve been wanting to get my hands on a classic, hand wound gramophone. It doesn’t necessarily have to be in perfect working condition, or even fully intact.
Ideally a good antique or a brand new vintage style replica if anyone knows where I could find one in Goa.
Does someone know what this is? It seems familiar but I can’t place where exactly or what exactly it is. Would really appreciate any lead to what it may be
There are numerous books on Goan churches in general but few that focus on only one and delve deep into its architecture and floor plans. I’ve managed to find one on the ruined church of the carmelites at Chimbel and one old one on the Santa Ana church at Talaulim. I was surprised by how detailed the book on the Carmelite church was! It had the exact floorplans and several 3d reconstructions. Does anyone here know of similar such books?
What building was it originally? During the Portuguese government. (The one in Panjim)
The name ‘Goa’ originally meant the city itself, not the current political state. This city stretched from Ribandar to Gaundalim from west to east, and till Agaçaim in the south, with an estimated population of about 3,00,000 people at its height. The many travellers, merchants and missionaries that visited the city during the 16th century proclaimed its glory and splendour, describing streets filled with both Portuguese and Goan inhabitants dressed in luxurious fabrics imported through the eastern trade, living lives of considerable wealth and opulence. Grand houses, convents, churches and civic buildings stretched in all directions, though today only the great churches and religious structures remain standing.
Everything else gradually fell into ruin as plagues, disease and depopulation slowly emptied the city of its people. Palaces, hospitals, residential quarters, civic buildings, squares and markets either collapsed naturally over time due to abandonment and monsoon decay, or were deliberately torn down so that their stone and building materials could be reused for the expansion of Panjim. By the late 19th century, much of the old city had already disappeared beneath ruins, vegetation and open land.
It remained in this neglected and ruined state until around 1960, when the Portuguese government began to recognise the scale of this loss and the historical importance of Old Goa, leading to the proposal of a broader master plan to reconnect and revive the area alongside Panjim. Only a few of these projects were ever completed, including the renovation of the Convent of São Caetano, the gardens laid out between the Basilica and the Cathedral, and the installation of the statue of Luís de Camões, which was later pulled down after Liberation. Some of the more ambitious proposals included restoring the old quays and constructing a riverfront promenade, restoring additional churches and religious structures, and even beginning new residential quarters within parts of the abandoned city. But these never took off as Goa was annexed into Índia the year later.
Why not WE preserve OUR heritage and restore the city with a master plan rather than these immigrants illegally encroaching historical land? Today barber shops, ‘South Indian restaurants, and the most irrelevant structures have popped out of nowhere and destroy whatever’s left.