MENEZES-BRAGANÇA HOUSE, CHANDOR The Menezes Bragança Pereira house is located at the Chandor Village in Goa. It is known to be more than 350 years old and is situated near the church square in Chandor. This mansion is the most exquisite heritage house in the countryside, the biggest in Goa and also has a Portuguese style façade. It is a museum of chandeliers, painting, porcelain, crystal, period furniture and other antique items. |
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IMAGE COLLECTION Rose Atkinson, 2005 (PBase) David Sanger, 1988 (www.davidsanger.com) Ajay Dongre, 2009 (mtmyndd.blogspot.com) Jolanta Mrowiec, 2010 (Picasa)
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SOURCES OF INFORMATION According to family history, in the 17th century A.F.S. Braganza Pereira was representing Goa under the Portuguese government as a vice consul general in Spain. He was gifted the land by the king of Portugal, Don Luiz on which the mansion is now located. Later after a few generations, the house was divided into two equal halves as it was inherited by two sisters in the family. It was named after their husbands - Menezes Branganza (west wing) and Braganza Pereira (East wing) and is still inhabited by descendants of the two families. More... Aida de Menezes Braganza, 90, represents the eighth generation of the Braganza family in Goa. She lives in her ancestral home in Chandor village in south Goa, one of the grandest of the State's colonial mansions. The house, which is shaded by a row of palms at the front and a fruit orchard at the back, has a 28-window, two-storey facade and flanks the full length of one side of the village square. It stands out amidst the tumbledown, tin-roofed houses near by, and only the whitewashed Portuguese-style Catholic church, gleaming in the midday sun, competes with it for attention. This is not surprising, for the house of Chandor was connected to both the rise and the fall of the 451-year rule of the Portuguese in Goa. More... The Braganza House was built in the 17th century. This huge house is situated on one side of the village square. It has now been divided into two separate houses, with a common entrance. More... Tendo a construção sido iniciada no séc. XVI, a enorme casa dos Bragança foi depois dividida em duas alas, uma pertencendo aos Menezes Bragança e a outra aos Bragança Pereira. Ambas as alas são visitáveis sendo, no entanto, a ala dos Menezes Bragança mais interessante. A casa dos Bragança é uma das mais emblemáticas casas senhoriais da antiga aristocracia de Goa. Aqui se pode encontrar mobiliário goês (muito dele feito nas próprias oficinas que a casa tinha!...), porcelanas chinesas, japonesas e inglesas, pratas portuguesas e inglesas, lustres de cristal belgas e venezianos, madeiras da Flandres, vidros coloridos nas janelas vindos de Veneza, mosaicos portugueses, livros, muitos livros (é a maior biblioteca privada de Goa!), retratos a óleo dos antepassados... More... Família Menezes Bragança representada por Aida de Menezes Bragança foi para Chandor em Gôa e ficou por lá. Fizeram até um filme em Portugal chamado "A Dama de Chandor". Como naquela época em 1962 era quase impossível se comunicar com a ìndia, as duas Famílias, que na verdade são só uma, se dividiram. O lado dos Bragança Pereira está abandonado, a Dona Aida só cuida do lado dos Menezes Bragança, pois o dos Bragança Pereira é cuidado pelo Governo Indiano. Não existe nenhum descendente por lá. Se você ver na reportagem que fizeram sobre a Família Bragança em Gôa, você vai ver que está escrito como Chardó a Casta dos Bragança. More... Planning a visit to Mrs Braganza’s House, located at Chandor in south Goa, is the next best thing to do (after exploring the beaches), while sight-seeing in Goa. That is where most of the traditional Goans, particularly the Christian community, live. The place is a real connoisseur’s delight. More... |
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