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{{Short description|Portuguese school in Portuguese India}}
{{Cleanup translation|Portuguese|type=check|listed=nolist}}

The '''Liceu Nacional Afonso de Albuquerque''' (1854-1961), initially called the '''Liceu Central de Nova Goa''', was a Portuguese public secondary educational institution in [[Nova Goa]], [[Portuguese India]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Faria |first=Alice Santiago |title=Afonso de Albuquerque Lyceum |url=https://hpip.org/en/Heritage/Details/581 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250906074355/https://hpip.org/en/Heritage/Details/581 |archive-date=2025-09-06 |access-date=2026-03-24 |website=hpip.org |language=en}}</ref> created by decree on 9 November 1854. The decree was issued by then [[Governor of Portuguese India]] Joaquim José Januário Lapa, the first Viscount of Vila Nova de Ourem.

The institution celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goanobserver.com/archive/20-11-2004/history.htm |title=Independent Goa Observer |website=www.goanobserver.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050105215318/http://www.goanobserver.com/archive/20-11-2004/history.htm |archive-date=2005-01-05}} </ref>

==Current status==

With the end of [[Portuguese India]], the institution joined the Indian system of education, to become extinct in its earlier form.

Following the end of Portuguese rule in Goa, and with the absorption of the region into the Indian Union, "this prime educational institution suffered a quick demise".<ref name="Memories p.3">{{cite web|url=https://pt.scribd.com/document/115064360/Goa-Liceu-Nacional-Afonso-de-Albuquerque-1961-2011-memories|title=Goa Liceu Nacional Afonso de Albuquerque, 1961-2011 memories|website=Scribd}}</ref> It survived for another year or two. The last batch of ''Finalistas'' (final year students) completed their studies after the Portuguese rule ended.<ref name="Memories p.3" />

The institution's sprawling facilities were made available to different other institutions that were being set up—the Dhempe College of Arts and Science, a private teachers' training college, a government higher secondary school, the local institution for training children (Bal Bhavan), a law college, the Dempo College of Commerce, and alike.  Its former campus, now refurbished, has since become the home of the Goa Bench of the [[Bombay High Court]].

==Notable alumni==
* [[Jack de Sequeira]], Indian politician and businessman<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fernandes |first=Maximiano Jose |title=Profile |url=http://drjackdesequeira.com/profile.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815065238/http://drjackdesequeira.com/profile.html |archive-date=2011-08-15 |access-date=2026-03-24 |website=drjackdesequeira.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Aquino de Bragança]], Mozambican physicist and journalist
* [[Al Jerry Braganza]], Indian filmmaker and actor<ref>{{Cite news |title=Feeling speci(AL) on his day |url=https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa-Social/Feeling-speci(AL)-on-his-day/87697 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305062911/https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa-Social/Feeling-speci(AL)-on-his-day/87697 |archive-date=2024-03-05 |access-date=2026-03-24 |work=oHeraldo}}</ref>
* [[Agostinho Fernandes]], writer and cardiologist<ref name="NTForgottenLourdes15">{{Cite web |author-link=Maria de Lourdes Bravo da Costa Rodrigues |last=Bravo da Costa Rodrigues |first=Maria de Lourdes |date=2015-07-05 |title=Agostinho Fernandes: The forgotten man of letters |work=The Navhind Times |url=https://www.navhindtimes.in/2015/07/05/magazines/panorama/agostinho-fernandes-the-forgotten-man-of-letters/ |access-date=2025-03-26 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Vinayak Sadashiv Sukhthankar]], Indian writer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Page:Konkani Vishwakosh - Volume 4 Released.pdf/888 - Wikisource |url=https://wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Konkani_Vishwakosh_-_Volume_4_Released.pdf/888 |access-date=2026-03-24 |website=wikisource.org |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Janardan Shinkre]], Indian freedom fighter and politician<ref>{{Cite web |title=Page:Konkani Vishwakosh - Volume 4 Released.pdf/739 - Wikisource |url=https://wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Konkani_Vishwakosh_-_Volume_4_Released.pdf/739 |access-date=2026-03-24 |website=wikisource.org |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Julião Menezes]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Almeida |first=José Julião do Sacramento |url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=xzaU1vfRyQwC&q=juliao+menezes+liceu&dq=juliao+menezes+liceu&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&ovdme=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKhvqz3OCTAxU-e_UHHRp_BZsQ6AF6BAgNEAM |title=A aldeia de Assolnã: esboço histórico--arquiológico e biográfico |date=1958 |publisher=Pe. J.C.E. Almeida |language=pt-BR|pages=183}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.scribd.com/doc/115064360/Goa-Liceu-Nacional-Afonso-de-Albuquerque-1961-2011-memories The 1961-1962 years of the Liceu Nacional Afonso de Albuquerque, Pangim, Goa]
* [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Liceu-Nacional-Afonso-de-Albuquerque-em-GOA/318765361544546 Liceu Nacional Afonso de Albuquerque, Goa, group on Facebook]

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