Mormugão Fort

Mormugão Fort stood on the southern point where the Zuari river meets the sea at Mormugao in Goa. The Portuguese viceroy Dom Francisco da Gama, Count of Vidigueira, ordered it during his second term to defend the southern bar, and old inscriptions date the start of work to 1624. In that century, plague and repeated attacks on the old city of Goa led the viceroys to consider moving the capital of Portuguese India to Mormugao, and some buildings went up for the purpose, but the cost proved too high and the plan was dropped. The Marathas took the area in 1737.

The fort was rectangular, 330 by 88 metres, with bastions at its corners, pentagonal on the land side and square towards the sea, and service buildings inside. A V-shaped curtain wall with a round tower at its angle guarded the approach from the harbour. Today the fort is badly ruined.