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Goa & Gomantak · Western Coastal Strip

त्योहार

त्योहार	कब	क्या होता है
Shigmo	Phalgun, February–March	The Goan Hindu spring festival, running for a fortnight through the New Conquest taluks with Ghode Modni, Goff, Talgadi and Romta Mel dancing village by village, and ending in large float parades at Panaji, Mapusa, Margao and Vasco. Rural Shigmo and parade Shigmo are two different events on the same calendar.
Carnival (Intruz)	The three days before Ash Wednesday, February–March	Street parades led by King Momo, floats, and a red-and-black dance to close it. Its village form is old and was largely a household and street affair; the parade in its current organised form is a twentieth-century tourism revival, and Goans distinguish the two.
Feast of St Francis Xavier	3 December	The largest single gathering in Goa, at Old Goa, with a novena preceding it. Once roughly every ten years the body is brought down from the Basilica for public veneration over about six weeks; the most recent exposition ran into January 2025.
Sao Joao	24 June	The feast of John the Baptist, marked by young men wearing crowns of leaves and fruit and jumping into wells, ponds and flooded fields. It falls at the height of the monsoon and is explained locally as celebrating the filling of the wells as much as the saint.
Sangodd	29 June, the feast of St Peter	Fishermen lash canoes together into a floating platform, build a stage on it and perform through the evening on the river. It is a fishing-community festival with a theatrical form and belongs to the riverside villages rather than to the beaches.
Bonderam	The fourth Saturday of August	Divar Island's flag festival, taking its name from the Portuguese bandeira and re-enacting old disputes over village boundary markers with mock fights, flags and a parade. Held in the monsoon, which is part of the point.
Chovoth (Ganesh Chaturthi)	Bhadrapad, August–September	The principal Hindu household festival of the region, distinguished by the matoli — the canopy of forest and garden produce hung above the idol — and by khatkhate, patoleo and nevri. Families return from wherever they work; Goa's roads and buses are at their fullest for it.
Konsachem Fest	August	The harvest feast at which the first sheaves of new paddy are cut, blessed at the church and distributed. It runs alongside Hindu new-harvest observances in the same weeks, and the same turmeric-leaf sweet is steamed for both.
Diwali and the Narkasur effigies	Ashwin–Kartik, October–November	Goa's Diwali is built around the eve of Naraka Chaturdashi, when neighbourhoods build enormous papier-mache Narkasur figures, compete over them, and burn them before dawn. The demon, not the lamp, is the centre of the festival here.
Feast of Our Lady of Miracles, Mapusa	The sixteenth day after Easter	Held at the Milagres church at Mapusa and attended by Hindu as well as Catholic devotees, who identify the image with one of the seven sisters of local devotion — the eldest of whom is Lairai, whose own zatra at Shirgao in May involves a night fire-walk by vowed devotees. The two observances are separate and the connection between them is asserted by the devotees themselves.
Three Kings feast	6 January	Celebrated most visibly at Cansaulim, Chandor and Reis Magos, where three boys are dressed as the magi and ride in procession to a hill chapel, with a fair below. The role rotates between villages by hereditary arrangement.
Chikal Kalo	Ashadh Ekadashi, June–July	At Marcel, devotees play in the mud of the temple courtyard through the monsoon morning in games associated with Krishna's childhood. It is one of the few festivals anywhere designed around rain rather than despite it.

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