The 114-year-old chapel inside Khotachi Wadi

“It was the Portuguese who arrived in the city before the British, to trade black gold or pepper, and they also came with the black book, the Bible,” said Sancia Sequeira, our expert guide through Khotachi Wadi, an area that was declared as a heritage precinct by the government in 1995. Mirroring its European Heritage Days, Alliance Française has organised heritage walks across different areas of the city, one of which was the Khotachi Wadi walk.