BY ASHAR KHAN – MARCH 20
A Lighthouse at Fort Aguada in North Goa. Image – Shutterstock
By the way, it was autumn season. I was sitting at one of the ramparts of a Fort Aguada in North Goa. Indeed, a huge architecture located some distance away from the beach.
The time would have been around 6 as the sun began to set. The dim golden sunlight had illuminated the sky and surroundings into a blonde seascape. The paling sun had fairly lost itself in the ether. In the distance, an outlying ship was still visible in the dimness. The panoramic view of the ocean converging with mighty mandovi river looked marvellous.
Moreover, this was so majestic a sight that it was easy to picture a Portuguese galleon in the horizon. In fact, it looked to be on the last leg of its laborious voyaging towards the Goan shore.
At some distance away from the fort was the serene Sinquerim Beach. There were some hundreds of seagulls were flying. Their flock was taking off from water upto a height and then again landing on the water surface. They were creating an oval pattern.
The place where I was sitting was some distance apart from the huge white lighthouse which had stood tall in the middle of the fort. It was a huge architecture built about 400 years ago. This four storeyed lighthouse is the oldest of its kind in Asia. In fact, it once used oil lamps to emit a beacon of light to guide those far off ships sailing in the night.
As the sun had almost set, the faster winds had began to flow in the surroundings and had seized the region. The ocean waves at the beach had already begun to be transformed into more powerful ones and were now reaching highest ever height in the air as they hit the beach.
There were still some people in the sight. In fact, some tourists were enjoying the sunset while some were still hanging out at the far side of the fort. They all looked enchanted by the tranquility of the place.
While sitting on the ramparts of what was once the most formidable and impregnable of the Portuguese forts in India felt so spellbinding. The Fort and its lighthouse have been standing guard to protect Goa since the sixteenth century and is the largest and the best-conserved Portuguese fort in Goa. Aguada fort and its lighthouse is an important landmark in the Goan history.
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