Ancestral Goa : Part 1 - Casa Araujo Alvares
Hi from AK and DN..!! Last weekend we decided to visit Ancestral Goa. The trip was totally unplanned. The visit is divided into 2 parts for easy viewing. This is part 1 and it covers the house of the Portuguese lawyer, Araujo Alvares, which is 250 years old. Watch the video for more information on the same. Hope you guys enjoy it..Please do like, share and subscribe..Thank you. #AK #DN
Casa Araujo Alvares, Loutolim, Goa / May 2015
This mansion named ‘Casa Araujo Alvares’ after it’s owner Eufemiano Araujo Alvares a prominent lawyer during the colonial era. It is a 250 year old heritage mansion about 10kms Madgaon. You can tour the interiors on an automated half-hour ‘sound-and-light show’ which illuminates rooms and furnishings to accompanying commentary.
Casa Araujo Alvares
Loutolim, Goa 403718, India (opposite Big Foot)
Phone:+91 832 275 0430
Entry fee of INR150/- per head and plus INR20/- for camera.
Casa Araujo Alvares Mansion Prayer Place,Loutolim,Old Goa - GA 403718, India.
Casa Araujo Alvares Mansion Prayer Place,Loutolim,Old Goa - GA 403718, India.
Casa Araujo Alvares is a 250 year old heritage mansion near Madgaon that is visited like a heritage museum for its heritage character and charm.
Prayer Place at Casa Araujo Alvares Mansion,Old Goa,India.
Casa Araujo Alvares Mansion Prayer Place,Loutolim,Old Goa(GA 403718)-India.
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The Ancestral Goa Museum (Big Foot Park) at Loutolim Village is one of the main tourist attractions in South Goa. The Ancestral Goa Museum (Bigfoot Cross Museum) is situated in the small village of Loutolim which is about 10 km from Margao and 25 km from Panaji. Ancestral Goa is modelled like a miniature Goan Village as it would have existed 100 years ago. Bigfoot Cross Museum has a collection of over 1700 crosses from around the world, collected by Maendra Jocelino Araujo Alvares. Bigfoot Art Gallery is a place for knowing the history of Goa and has the best handcrafts of Old Goa. The entry Fee can range from Rs 20 to Rs 50 and the visiting hours are from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.
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By Terence
Maendra Alvares
Maendra Jocelino Araujo Alvares
Born on 1st March 1958 at Margao, Goa, India.
A man with many FIRST challenges and many FIRSTS down the road.
Established-
1) The first advertising agency in Goa - Art Ads, in 1983, handling different publicity media under one roof.
2) A Centre for Preservation and Promotion of Art, Culture & Environment, launched in 1994 called Ancestral Goa - the first of its kind, open air museum spread over 9 acres at Loutolim, depicting the culture and tradition of rural Goa that existed a hundred years ago, in the form of life size statues and structures, showcasing: 1) Structures, architecture and materials used. ii) Occupation and trades. iii) Tools and equipment. iv) The dress styles (Indian & western mix). v) Beliefs. vii) 'Communal Harmony' - how our people worked and lived together.
3) Goa's first designer's dance floor - The Big Foot Dance Floor, in the shape of a giant footprint, with the toes acting as dais.
Accommodating 2000 pax and with planned parking in 1994.
4) India's first laterite sculpture, of 'Sant Mirabal' called 'Natural Harmony, measuring 14mts. by 5mts in 30 days. This work has been cited in the Limca Book of Records, as the creation of a new landmark for Goa in 1994.
5) The Big Foot Art Gallery, started in 1997 at Loutolim, promotes youth, students and amateur artists. It also holds annual inter-school drawing competitions.
6) The first aesthetically planned, traffic island with a theme – Communal Harmony, at Gogol, Margao, Goa called The Big Foot Circle' in 2005.
7) As part of the Anti-plastic and Garbage Reduction drive, with effigies of 5259 plastic bottles, 15 feet high & 5 meters broad. This was the first of its kind. In the latter half of the year a Christmas tree of plastic bottles was erected at Gogol, Margao for the same drive both done in 2005.
8) “The Big Foot Cross Museum” at Loutolim, has on displays 1062 crosses from all over the world in 80 classifications. This museum with its display, varieties and details, is the first ever of its kind, here, in Goa created in 2006. Attempting to make our world inspiring, environment friendly and a better place to live in.
9) An unusual first was created in an icon chapel with 374 icons. This is at Maendra’s 250 Yrs. Old original, family heritage mansion, Casa Araujo Alvares at, “Kattem”, in Loutolim and an exhibition of 1081ccrosses and 1081 Ganesh idols.
10) Maendra launched a book on his collection of crosses, displayed at the “Big Foot Cross Museum”. This book on crosses & Goan legends – “In Search” is a First in all categories as such a detailed edition, goes.
11) Maendra was one of the few entrepreneurs to carry forward the challenge of sharing his artistic genius with young people. He began one of the First children’s Nature Art Camp from May 1995 to date, at the Big Foot Dance Floor where around 300-400 children participated, annually.
12) First to start the 'Feni Festival' to show how it is made and its medicinal values – different types and flavours.
13) Casa Araujo Alvares' – Goa’s First automated museum ‘Sound & light’.
Recognitions & Positions Held
• “State Art Award” from the Govt. of Goa, Daman and Diu, in the Applied Art category in 1981-82.
• International Gold Star Millenium Award from Global Economic Council in Katmandu, 2001.
• Vincent Xavier Verodiano Award, 2008. For the well being of mankind through individual once advancement in the field of art, music literature, science, medicine or humanities.
• Lokmat Gaurava Puraskar [Tourism], 2010.
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Ancestral Goa Big Foot Cross Museum Light & Sound Show | Inside Portuguese Mansion of Alvarez in Goa - Video showing the automated Light & Sound Show (Exhibition) inside 250 years old Portuguese Manson i.e., Alvarez House located at Loutolim (South Goa). Watch antique furniture, utensils, chair, table, wine bottles, and many more antique items inside Alvarez's Ancestral House which is now became a Museum in Goa. Video showing the interior condition of Big Foot & Casa Araujo Alvares Mansion Museum with Light & Sound presentation (view).
Casa Araujo Alvares is now outfitted with automated sound and lighting effects at Ancestral Big Foot Museum situated at Loutolim, Goa. Goa's First Casa Araujo Alvares House Museum inside 250 year old mansion at Loutolim (Goa).
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