Fort Aguada
Seventeenth-century coastal fortress whose cells once held Goa's freedom fighters under Portuguese rule.
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Fort Aguada in Goa was built between 1609 and 1612 to guard the Mandovi River, its freshwater spring once refilling passing ships for three centuries. Under Antonio Salazar's dictatorship the lower fort became a prison, and the guide follows freedom fighter Nagesh Karmali's memory of its bare cells alongside the 1946 arrest of socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia at a railway station on the Goa border. You'll hear about his solitary confinement beside fellow freedom fighter T. B. Cunha, and about the lighthouse raised above the fort in 1864. Stand in the doorway of that narrow cell to take in the view they once had of the sea.
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