Tivim Fort

Tivim Fort, properly the Fortaleza de São Sebastião, stretches from the village of Tivim to Colvale in Goa. Ordered in 1635 by the viceroy D. Miguel de Noronha, Count of Linhares, and completed in 1681, it guarded the Bardez frontier first against the Bahamanis and later the Marathas. It is one of three forts along the Tivim canal. The defences were a long wall of brick, stone and mud on the canal's western bank, with the canal serving as a moat, and a series of guardhouses.

Sambhaji's failed invasion of 1683 damaged the fort; the Marathas held it for two years from 1739, and Portuguese troops stayed until 1841. Today most of it is in ruins and hard to make out, though at least three guardhouses are still identifiable and parts are being restored by Goa's Directorate of Archives and Archaeology. A Portuguese inscription of 1635 survives on its gates, and nearby stands the Chapel of Saint Michael, founded by the Franciscans in 1591.