Cabo de Rama Fort
Cliffside Portuguese fortress ceded without a fight, with a still-active chapel amid its ruined ramparts.
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This guide to Cabo de Rama Fort in Goa opens with a question: would you hand your own fort to a foreign navy just to keep a rival off your back? It follows the Raja of Soonda, who ceded this headland to the Portuguese in the 1760s for protection against Hyder Ali of Mysore, and reaches back to the older legend tying the site to the exiled Rama and Sita of the Ramayana. It also follows the small whitewashed chapel the Portuguese later built inside the military walls, still holding mass once a year for families from Canacona.
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