Purument Feast Market, Holy Spirit, Margao, Goa, May 2023

Margao’s Holy Spirit Church celebrates the feast of Pentecost, which we consider the birthday of the Catholic church, on the last Sunday of May. For two weeks after Pentecost Sunday, the Purument feast spreads out along the roads between Margao’s Old Market and Kadamba Bus Stand. Depending on who you ask, ‘purument’ is either a mangling of the Portuguese word provisão, meaning provisions, or preservação, meaning preservation, and this feast is all about stocking up on preserved provisions like dried fish, mango slices, home-made vinegar and kokum berries for the monsoon season, which begins in the second week of June in Goa. During the rains, fishing boats do not venture out to sea, because this is also the breeding season for many fish. Thus, plenty of dried and pickled fish is needed to survive the monsoon months.
With people crowding the purument bazaars for provisions, clothes and household goods sellers also began bringing their wares. Therefore, purument is the time to replace old utensils and purchase new ones, and you will find everything a Goan kitchen needs, from clay combos to cast iron appe pans. And thus purument became, and still remains, the most important mid-year shopping outing for Goans, second only to the Diwali-Christmas seasons late in the year.
In north Goa, the best purument shopping is done at Mapusa market on all Fridays of May, and in Panjim’s new municipal market. Margao’s purument in south Goa is the most famous of the purument bazaars of Goa, and is a magnet for shoppers and traders from every corner of Goa and from the villages and towns around Karwar, Hubli-Dharwad and Belgaum in Karnataka. This is the market that we will walk through in this video.
Kadio-bodio stalls are at the entries to all the areas of the purument market. The pork bazaar in Old Market stretching down behind the Margao-Colva road is for preserved items. You will not get preserved provisions outside this area.
The main Margao-Colva road has stoneware and pottery.
The Panjim highway is lined with clothes stalls, with a good sprinkling of household goods stalls.
The SGPDA ground is for all kinds of household goods with a good sprinkling of clothes stalls. The giant wheel and fun fair for kids is also on the SGPDA ground.
For some of us, Margao’s purument market remains the occasion to get the perfectly salted dried fish that make it possible to survive those monsoon months without fresh leppo. For others, it is the chance to get really good clothes at really low rates. For a few, it’s the time to spend those savings on that big piece of furniture. But for each and every one of us, Margao’s purument market is a whole lot of bargains, a whole lot of colour and above all a whole lot of fun.
Hope you enjoy this video of one of the legendary shopping festivals of the Queen of the South - our beautiful Margao Town.
Music:
Caro Luna / Tu Voz (Instrumental Version), Tu Voz / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com
Ebo Krdum / Lek Alhoob (Instrumental Version), Al-Habeeba (Instrumental Version) / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com
#goa #4k #margao #shopping

[@NandkumarKamatGoa]

Circulated to important and influential persons in Margao and Salcete with specific suggestions to bring it on par with European informal markets and improve amenities, traffic and pedestrian circulation and safety. Margao is among top 100 richest towns in India ( among 7935 census towns) and the traditional monsoon provisions festival पुरूमेताचे फेस्त is a major source of income for traditional artisans, sellers and unorganised sector. Konkani speaking Goenkars must patronize all made in Goa products and take their kids around to educate them about our precious heritage.

[@gamalbh4364]

Hello, you brought my school days Memories when I was studying in Belgaum. I used to come to Goa for my holidays, Colonel Jamal from dubai 👍 great video. I love ❤️ very much Goa Belgaum Bangalore Bangalore Manglow

[@lesleyingoa]

My pleasure, Colonel Jamal. Thanks for your kind comment. Do let us know other places in Goa you would like to see

[@gamalbh4364]

@Lesley in Goa send me your WhatsApp number. I will add you on with me 👍

[@junecarvalho828]

Interesting & informative video. Thank you! Loved the reference to 'lepo' @Maria.❤😊

[@IvanBarbosaVlogs]

Good job bro excellent work you have done amazing Video!
Keep doing great work 🙌😍

[@lesleyingoa]

Thanks so much for your kind words

[@renukasatchithananthan7302]

Beautiful music. Magnificent market.

[@pdias8469]

Hello Lesley, it’s awesome to watch this purument in Margao - Colva road. It’s vast. I can’t believe I used to walk from Colva to Margao. The roads then were awful. But I must say I feel proud for Goans. Blessings to all Goans.

[@lesleyingoa]

May God bless you!

[@esperancafernandes3608]

I love markets like these. I wish I was there.

[@juliegonsalves7584]

Love de video thanks for Exploring plz show us the plastic flowers

[@lesleyingoa]

Thank you

[@juliegonsalves7584]

Artificial flowers 😊

[@LibyaBraganza]

Too good video , really pure goan ,every thing is perfect

[@lesleyingoa]

Thank you so much

[@AnthonydeBetalbatim]

Thank you for exploring the video of our God.

[@lesleyingoa]

Thank you for your kind comment

[@maheshdhaimode441]

Is Purument Feast held every year in Margao on Sunday of May?

[@lesleyingoa]

Yes, Purument market starts on feast of Holy Spirit Church in Margao, which occurs on a particular Sunday in May. The exact date changes from year to year. In 2024, it is like to be on May 18

[@vaibhavdinkarmardhekar]

Thanks for exploring yourself & us also! Please do videos in monsoon also & show us unknown monsoon side of Goa.

[@lesleyingoa]

Definitely. Monsoon is lovely light for shooting. Will do lots and lots of monsoon videos 👍🏼

[@pauldsouza3622]

Wow they got a carnival behind the market too 😮

[@lesleyingoa]

Yes, there are rides at the Margao faeri. Next week at Vasco Saptah also there will be rides

[@PranaliKande01]

Great job amazing video 😍😍Purumet Feastk Khup kide gheupk melta

[@pauldsouza3622]

Very informative Lesley 👍

[@lesleyingoa]

Thank you

[@pdias8469]

😊

[@felcydsouza7541]

I had just been there really enjoyed loved it brought many childhood memories back

[@lesleyingoa]

Glad to hear it. Thanks for your kind comment

[@virginareginafernandes5410]

Very very nice hard working people s god bless your ll

[@joaodesousa5870]

Thanks for uploading this video

[@lesleyingoa]

Our pleasure, Joao. Thank you for your kind comment

[@diogofernandes7865]

wonderful place our goa

[@lesleyingoa]

A heavenly place!

[@fshdyhdudjrj8060]

Beautiful video Goa market

[@lesleyingoa]

Thank you

[@shalinidsouza8271]

😅 well done video 👍💐🌹

[@lesleyingoa]

thank you so much

[@reginamonterio8201]

Till when is this festival as I would like to go there

[@lesleyingoa]

Till June 4 Sunday night

[@lizafernandes4538]

no no monday Or Tuesday I personally ask them...

[@lesleyingoa]

yes, today is last day

[@Rajatchari]

Ferry kitle dis astali?

[@lesleyingoa]

7 dis. Paus podla, khobor na

[@lizafernandes4538]

monday na zaller tuesday hui

[@lesleyingoa]

today is last day