Arpora is a coastal village close to the

North Goa North Goa district is one of the two districts that constitutes the state of Goa, India. The district has an area of , and is bounded by Kolhapur and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra state to the north and by Belgavi district of Karnatak ...

beach belt.

Role in the traditional salt industry

Traditionally, it has been a coastal village, known for its traditional salt-making industry. This aspect of the village has been studied in a book, ''As Dear As Salt'', which studies four traditional salt-making villages of

Goa Goa (; ; ) is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is bound by the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north, and Karnataka to the ...

(including Arpora).

Night market

In recent times, it is more known for its night market, "The Saturday Night Market". This is open during the fair-weather tourist season (around September to March). Items sold range from musical mouth harps or varieties of food. It also has live musical performances.

History

Arpora is known for St Joseph's, a school that was the first in Goa to offer education in the

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. It was set up by William Robert Lyons, a British priest who inculcated sports into the curriculum, introducing

Goan Goans ( Romi Konkani: , ) is the demonym used to describe the people native to Goa, India, formerly part of Portuguese India (''Estado Português da Índia''). They form an ethno-linguistic group resulting from the assimilation of Indo-Aryan, ...

s to football in 1883.

References

Villages in North Goa district {{Goa-geo-stub