Aguada fort

It is a tourist spot many tourist visit it. It is a beautiful place and it is said to be a haunted place so by 5:30 it gets closed down.
This is the largest and the best preserved Portuguese bastion in goa and was built in 1612, to control the entry into the river Mandovi and to protect old goa from potential enemy attacks.
A fresh water spring-from where the fort derives its name-with in the fort provided water supply to the ships that called there Ring by thick battlements strategically located at the estuary of the river Mandovi, this fort was constructed in 1612 as a guard against invasions from the Dutch and Marathas.
The walls of this fort are 5 metre high and 1.3 metres wide little surprise then that this remains to be the only fort that was not conquered by any invaders during the 450 years long rule of the Portuguese empire .
The area around the fort housed a large well and a number of spring that provided fresh drinking water to the voyagers that arrived by ship 'Aqua' in Portuguese mean water , thus the fort derived its name "Aquada" to denote a place where water is accumulated.