Municipal Garden (Garcia-Da-Orta) (Panaji)

 park, garden

Municipal Garden Garcia-Da-Orta. Garcia da Orta, one of the most illustrious Jews to have lived in Goa in the 16th century is known for the city garden named after him, but few know about the one he laid in Old Goa.
The garden in Panaji was inaugurated in February 1878, and is perhaps the oldest garden in Goa. But it was renamed as Jardim Garcia de Orta only after Portugal became a republic in 1910 and long after he died.
It has helped kept alive the memory of the pioneer of tropical medicine and ethnobotany, among other things. But facets of Orta's brilliant career as herbalist has dimmed with passage of time. In Old Goa, he was the chief physician at the Royal Hospital, close to Mandovi river front.