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Pic credit : Maxson DeSilva
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The well-preserved seventeenth-century Portuguese fort ‘Aguada’
at Sinquerim was built in 1602-12. This fort was a hub, where all
the crews of passing ships often visit to replenish water stores. A freshwater
spring within the fort provided water supply to the ships that used to stop by
and that’s how the fort got its name. ‘Agua’ means ‘water’ in Portuguese. Today
the fort has 2 light houses one is the old one, to your surprise it was a 13 meter
high structure, which made use of oil lamp at the start for directing the
ships. Later on it was modernized. And today a new light house has been already
constructed at Aguada which provides a beautiful view of the entire area. A
strange and unique part of this fort is that this was the only fort that was
not conquered by invaders during 450 years of Portuguese rule.
