Tourist Attractions in Old Goa

Explore the 2 best tourist attractions in Old Goa, Goa that every traveler must visit. This list covers a wide range of attractions including hill stations, temples, monuments, and much more — so there's something for every kind of traveler.

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  Se Cathedral

  Church in Old Goa

  The largest church in Asia doesn't announce itself with fanfare. It sits in Old Goa under a white-hot sky, its laterite walls bleached by centuries of monsoon and sun, one bell tower conspicuously absent — lost to collapse in 1835 and never rebuilt. That asymmetry is the first thing you notice, and it tells you more about this cathedral's story than any plaque could. Se Cathedral is not a monument to perfection. It's a monument to endurance, to the strange persistence of Portuguese Catholicis...
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  Basilica de Bom Jesus

  Church in Old Goa

  Inside a laterite-walled basilica in Old Goa, the mortal remains of St. Francis Xavier have been lying in a silver casket for over four centuries. The body, by most accounts, has resisted the full indignities of decomposition — a fact that has drawn pilgrims, skeptics, and the merely curious in roughly equal measure since the seventeenth century. The Basilica de Bom Jesus, which translates to "Basilica of Good Jesus," is the only church in Old Goa that hasn't been plastered on the outside, an...