Goa Deep Heritage Tour: Old Goa Churches UNESCO 1986, Baga, Anjuna, Palolem and Dudhsagar Falls 310 m - Complete Traveller Guide
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Goa Deep Heritage Tour: Old Goa Churches UNESCO 1986, Baga, Anjuna, Palolem and Dudhsagar Falls 310 m - Complete Traveller Guide TL;DR Goa is India's smallest state at 3,702 square kilometres, home to roughly 1.5 million residents and around 8 million annual visitors who arrive for a very specific combination that no other Indian destination offers in one short coastline. The Portuguese ruled here from 1510 until 19 December 1961, leaving 450 years of architecture, cuisine, language and Catholic-Hindu coexistence behind. That is why your trip splits naturally into four parallel storylines. First, the World Heritage churches of Old Goa, inscribed by UNESCO in 1986, where the Basilica of Bom Jesus from 1605 holds the mummified body of Saint Francis Xavier, kept since 1554, and where the Sé Cathedral from 1619 remains the largest church in Asia. Second, the North Goa beach belt running through Calangute, Baga and Anjuna, where ...