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Portuguese Goa lingers in the Fontainhas, the precinct between Altinho and Rua de Orem creek. A popular residential quarter of the 18th and 19th centuries, Fontainhas has narrow streets packed tight with double and triple storied houses painted indigo, red and ochre and topped with tiled roofs. Steps lead off the street to elegant wrought iron gates with nameplates that read Albuauerque, Da Cunha, Rodrigues, Cardoso, Nunes, Sousa and Carvlho. Shrines housing blue and ivory statues of Madonna and Christ, gargerns and deep verhandahs full of potted aspidistras and palms, lacy wrought iron balconies overhanging the street recreate an era long gone. The church of St. Sebestian stands at the southern end of Fontainhas. Its most valued possesion is the "Crucifix of the Inqusition", which originally adorned the Palace of the Inqusition in Velha Goa, then hung in the Viceroys chapel in Idalcao's Palace befor beign brought to San Sebastine in 1918.
