Assagao figures amidst the tiniest and well laid out villages of the Velhas Conquistas of Bardez. And small is naturally beautiful. Assagao is a mere strip of land of about 7 kilometres in length, and it is sandwiched between greenhills clothed in c aju groves. From Mapusa town, the road u-turns uphill and, while descending the pass in the small plateau, splits into two. The main artery proceeds straight along the church of St Cajetan, the Assagao Union High School and St Michael's church in Anjuna towards the Vagator beach. The second negotiates circuituously westward and passes by the Pallotine Seminary to Badem.