Mapusa yesterday and today

About Mapusa yesterday and today

Mapusa is a bustling town in the north of Goa, the former Portuguese colony and tourist destination. This book gives you a street-by-street walk down the town, as it is was a couple of generations ago and as it looks today. As Goa goes through a process of urbanisation and change, this book aims at recording the places we knew, the lanes we walked, and the mores of life of another era that we cannot forget. Its author earlier penned the book "Domnic's Goa" focussing the Goa of the yesteryears, that brought back the mists of nostalgia to our mind's eye. In this book, Domnic reminisces on Mapusa town as it existed over half a century ago when he attended the Escola Técnica Elementar de Mapuçá in the late fifties. The author begins his tour on foot from Khorlim ghat (hillock) and proceeds to Duler and Cunchelim and then returns to Mapusa Church via St. Jerome s road and finally to the Bodgeshwar temple covering almost every old building and place of interest in town. Domnic Fernandes offers brief histories of each topic, and embellishes the book with pictures of old buildings, some of which might not survive ver long. He reminds us of the Viscount of Bardez, Inacio Caetano de Carvalho, who resided above present Tadeu Sports shop. He has covered the two temples in Mapusa -- Hanuman and Bodgeshwar temple. He walks us to the St. Jerome/Milagres Church and the Swiss Chapel in Angodd. Check out every pharmacy which existed in Mapusa during the Portuguese regime and those which continue to this day. Learn more about the old (1875) and new (1945) Asilo Hospitals, the old market, and the helpful business of the town. The book covers practically every old place in Mapusa and makes an interesting reading."