Fontainhas

Fontainhas is an antique Latin Quarter in Panjim, capital metropolis of the kingdom of Goa, India. It maintains its Portuguese impact, especially thru its structure, which incorporates narrow and picturesque winding streets like those observed in lots of European cities, antique villas and homes with projecting balconies painted within the traditional tones of light yellow, inexperienced, or blue, and roofs fabricated from red colored tiles. Fontainhas' background atmosphere represents the traditional Portuguese affect within the region.

In the late 18th century, a Goan expatriate named Antonio Joao de Sequeira, who had made his wealth at the same time as operating in Mozambique, established Fontainhas. The call got here from a spring on the foot of the hill which commenced to sprout around 1770. It is patterned along the strains of Lisbon’s Bairo Alto. In 1844, a central authority administrator, who had restored a few order in Goa, directed that even the humans of the lower strata of society have to seem nicely wearing public. He constructed a stylish road with a parapet known as the Rua Nova d Ouremsea at the seaward side of the Fontainhas Bairro. In the identical vicinity, he additionally created the Phenis fountain, with a facade and porch.