Big Foot Loutolim - Ancestral Goa

The project, “The Big Foot”, commenced in the year 1995, when, a sculpture, the longest one, carved in India, entered the “Limca Book of Records”. Being multi-faceted in aspect, it was difficult to classify this project under any particular heading. Therefore, it divided itself into different portions, covering a multitude of facets, all of which had to do with Mr Alvaresessence.

A company who manifested its need to invest in the benefits of a very happening tourist site, in the National and International journals. The project under varied names, also had the formation of the “Big Foot Trust”, who handled all the Artistic and Cultural aspects. Today, this project is alike any other multi-national company, differing in one major aspect, only, in that it is the brain-child of a single individual, Maendra J. A. Alvares, an Artist and Sculptor himself, who actually single-handedly carved the Longest Laterite Sculpture for India, that of Sant Mirabai, today entitled the “Natural Harmony”.

In the promotion of the A, B, C, of life, the project, popularly known as the Big Foot, also encourages, smaller enterprises to set themselves up at the premises. All these are looked after by the “Big Foot Trust”, as part of its endeavor in the healthy promotion of all aspects of the maintenance, furtherment of the views, of the preservation of the ecology and the traditions and culture.

What follows below is a definition of all the aspects and the mottos, that over time have been adhered to, and most vigorously maintained.

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Legend

Blessed with a deep sense of duty and unending goodness, a wealthy landowner by the name of Mahadar helped the poor. Greedy neighbours wishing to take advantage of his naiveté kept on asking him for help till one day fleeced by all his possessions and destitute with the loss of his wife, he was left alone. The Gods pleased with his devotion granted him immortality only if he paid penance by standing on one foot atop a rock. When done, Mahadar was taken to heaven whereupon, the footprint he left behind promised luck to whosoever stood on it with a heart free from greed and malice

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How you can Reach

The mock-village of Ancestral Goa is located in Loutolim, 15 min from Margao in Salcete Taluka. Ancestral Goa is included as one of the sight seeing spots by Goa Tourism Development Corporation's buses in their cultural tour package. The museums are generally open from 10:00 am till 7:00 pm, except on Sundays when they are closed. Tourists can get a number of taxis from Margao to reach this mock-village at any time of the year.