Shigmo is a social festival with a religious core. It is the Goan counterpart of ‘Holi’ in the rest of India. It’s also called the festival of colours. The major attraction of Shigmo is the huge procession that is carried out in which people from every caste and religion take part with lot of enthusiasm. And of course, Shigmo is the folk festival of Goan Hindu’s in true spirit, which display a variety of folk dances, music, theatre forms and more. It is the occasion, on which one could also see the variety of crafts, and arts of the village artisans through costumes, colourful floats based on mythological events, musical instruments, headgears, masks and jewellery.

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