Sinquerim Beach
Curved sandy shoreline below a seventeenth-century fort, popular for water sports and sea views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sinquerim Beach in Goa asks why the most important man on the hilltop above it, at Fort Aguada, never fired one of its seventy-nine cannons. It traces the fort's real purpose to a spring-fed cistern that once held roughly two million four hundred thousand gallons of fresh water for ships arriving after months at sea, and to the lighthouse keeper who had to relight an oil lamp by hand through the night from 1864 onward. A bell salvaged from a ruined church in Old Goa once hung in that same lighthouse before it moved on to Panaji.
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