Mapusa
Mapusa is a city in North Goa, India.
Mapusa is a city in North Goa, India. It is situated 13 km north of the state capital of Panaji. The city is the headquarters of Bardez taluka. During Portuguese India, the city was known as "Mapuçá".
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Worth seeing in and around Mapusa
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Vagator Beach
Vagator Beach a beach in Bardez Taluka, in the state of Goa, India. It is located across the Chapora River from the town of Morjim.
8.1 km · Beach in Goa, India · Wikipedia - 02Chapora Fort
Chapora Fort, located in Bardez, Goa, rises high above the Chapora River. The site is the location of a fort built by Adil Shahi dynasty ruler Adil Shah and called Shahpoora, whose name was altered to Shapora by Malvankar on the request of the Portuguese.
9 km · fort in Goa, India · Wikipedia - 03Chapora Beach
Chapora is a coastal village at Chapora River estuary lying alongside a beach stretch in North Goa that is around 10 km. from Mapusa, a City in Northern Goa.
8.6 km · beach and village near the fort · Wikipedia - 04Museum of Goa
The Museum of Goa, is a privately owned contemporary art gallery in Pilerne Industrial Estate, near Calangute, Goa, India. Founded in 2015, it is 1,500 square meters in size.
8.7 km · privately owned contemporary art gallery · Wikipedia - 05Corjuem Fort
Fort Assunção or Corjuem Fort is a fortress situated 4 kilometres from the village of Aldona on the river island of Corjuem, Goa. It was a military fortress for the defense of Portuguese India.
7.8 km · building in India · Wikipedia - 06Colvale Fort
The Fortaleza de São Sebastião, also called the Tivim Fort, after the village where a part of the long wall structure was once located, is a fort that spans from the village of Tivim, to the area known as Colvale, in Goa, on the west coast of India. Currently, most of it is in ruins and barely visible.
2.4 km · building in India · Wikipedia - 07Duler Stadium
Duler Stadium, officially Duler Football Stadium, is a football stadium in Mapusa, Goa, India. Dempo, Salgaocar, and Sporting Goa were the most notable venue users.
400 m · building in India · Wikipedia - 08Ronil Royale
The Ronil Royale Hotel, opened circa 1987, is located in North Goa, India, and consists of twenty-four rooms. Its name is a portmanteau of Robustiano do Rosario Barreto and Nilda Souza Xavier Barreto.
8.4 km · building in India · Wikipedia - 09St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa
St. Xavier's College is a private Catholic university college located in the town of Mapusa in the district of North Goa.
1.3 km · catholic university college in North Goa, India · Wikipedia - 10Goa Cricket Association Stadium
Goa Cricket Association Stadium is a cricket stadium, proposed to be built in Dhargal, Goa. The stadium will be the home ground of the Goa Cricket Association.
8.5 km · building in India · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Besides the weekly colourful Friday Market, Mapusa is known for its educational institutions. It also has scenic (though not very famed) churches and temples. An alternative bookshop, the Other India Bookstore, is known to attract a number of tourists and visitors because of the wide range of off-the-beaten-track books that it stores.
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Things to do
Visit the weekly Friday Market. Church out the Our Lady Of Miracles Church (an example of Catholic-Hindu amity during its feast time). See if the circus is visiting Mapusa when you're there (usually around Christmas). Visit the many 'sales' of low-end inexpensive items available in Mapusa. Buy a plant or tree from the Friday Mapusa Market, keep Goa green. Visit the century-old Athaide Municipal Library at Mapusa.
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Where to eat
This is the place to eat traditional Goan food, both prepared in the Catholic and Hindu styles. Though there are a few eating outlets in Mapusa, the traditional styles of cooking still hold reign in places like Cafe Xavier (in the market), while Babaji's cold drinks outlet, which also offers snacks, is a prominent draw for the younger crowd.
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Getting to Mapusa
- Airports
- Manohar (GOX), 17 km · Goa Dabolim (GOI), 24 km
- Stations
- Tivim Railway Station, 6.8 km
- Mangaluru → Mapusa318 km · quickest by air, 4h 16m · ₹5,190–7,960
- Pune → Mapusa326 km · quickest by air, 4h 30m · ₹5,180–7,930
- Navi Mumbai → Mapusa392 km · quickest by air, 5h 5m · ₹5,820–8,900
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Mapusa
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mapusa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThis can be done by taxi, hitchhiking or buses with transfers.
- Get aroundThere is a wide range of taxis and rickshaws easily available.
From Wikivoyage: Baga, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-02.
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