The white-and-blue façade of St. Alex sits a few hundred metres back from the beach road, a Portuguese-style baroque church with twin bell towers and a sweeping flight of steps. The first chapel on the site dates from 1595; the present church was rebuilt in the late eighteenth century and renovated again in the 1930s.
The interior is plain by Goan standards — a single nave, a gilded altar and a few side chapels — but it gives a clear sense of how the Portuguese laid out their parish churches across north Goa. Sunday Mass draws the local Catholic community in proper church clothes, an unexpectedly formal scene a five-minute walk from a beach full of sunburned tourists.