 Assagao
figures amidst the tiniest and well laid out villages of the Velhas
Conquistas of Bardez. And small is naturally beautiful. Assagao
is a mere strip of land of about 7 kilometres in length, and it
is sandwiched between greenhills clothed in caju groves. From Mapusa
town, the road u-turns uphill and, while descending the pass in
the small plateau, splits into two.
The main artery proceeds straight
along the church of St Cajetan, the Assagao Union High School
and St Michael's church in Anjuna towards the Vagator beach.
The second
negotiates circuituously westward and passes by the Pallotine
Seminary to Badem. These parallel roads run alongside the hillrange
and are lined with modest to magestic mansions. Virtually at
every kilometre, a crossroad connects the main roads in this
valley known for crossandra flowers. In Konkani the flame-coloured
flowers are called abolim and since they grew here in plenty
once, Assagao was known as aboleamcho
ganv or fulancho ganv.
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