History category during Bandra fort

Mumbai for kidsCastella de Aguada, Bandra (W)
On any given day my many favourite travel with my kids is one that is tighten during hand. If we get off during Bandra Bandstand — that starts with a flattering children’s park that many adults use to do yogic stretches — we can travel by a scenic sea face. The one km-long flattering corridor —which has places to sit, and is now detailed with a Walk of Stars and other Bollywood and installations — can be lonesome in 20 minutes.

Past a glitzy five-star hotel, and roughly dark from a normal open eye is a tiny gate. On a right of this embankment are stairs holding we adult to what a house says Fort Gardens. But right in front one spots what seems like ancient mill walls. The Bandra Fort-or Castella de Aguada (Portuguese: Fort of a Waterpoint) as it was christened by a Portuguese who built it — was built as a watchtower. You’ll know since once we get into a fort.

Wide, purify and stoic but carvings or other embellishments a Bandra Fort is a closest anyone can ever get to see a Bandra-Worli Sea link, today. Without this manmade structure bend in front of we it contingency have given unrestricted views of a islands that finished Bombay.

Built and finished by a Portuguese in 1640, a Bandra Fort was meant to be a watchtower unaware Mahim Bay, a Arabian Sea and a southern island of Mahim.


A board atop one of a Fort walls

The value of a installation contingency have increasing after a Portuguese ceded a 7 islands of Bombay to a English.

Bandra not being a partial of a 7 islands, a installation would have been an ideal, neutral space to watch a islands. we explain all this to a kids. During a Portuguese rule, it was armed with 7 cannons and other smaller guns as defence. There contingency have been a freshwater open in a vicinity, that granted beverage H2O to flitting ships, since this is a usually reason for a name.


The Sea Link can be speckled from a Fort Gardens. Pics/Syed Sameer Abedi

The kids adore to mount adult a stairs of a Fort gardens and play hide-and-seek, while we demeanour out during a ease blue-grey H2O swishing adult a hilly banks. When we are finished with a play we travel down a bottom of a installation to a open sea where fingers of rocks take we out there to group with fishing tackle. We lay examination while they lift out three-foot prolonged fish, one after a other, and place them still alive in a basket.

It is the anytime-in-the-year place to go.

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