"The first luxury hotel in Goa is still at it, under the banner of India’s most famous luxury-hotel brand: Taj Fort Aguada Resort & Spa, Goa. There’s no beating its setting, on over 40 acres of lush hillside gardens, overlooking both Sinquerim Beach and the ramparts of the 16th-century Portuguese-built Fort Aguada. And while the Taj shows plentiful Portuguese influence of its own — a stylistic thread that’s inseparable from Goan architecture — it’s far more elegant, even delicate, than the word “fort” might imply." - Tablet Hotels