To Siolim's north lies the quiet village of Oxel; green hillocks hedge it towards Assagao in the south and the east.

Camurlim to lies to its east, and in the west flows the Chapora river with Morjim and its pine-wooded beach on the northern bank in Pernem.

Porta-Vaddo, Tarchi Bhatt, Guddem, Aframent, Vaddi and Oxel in Siolim-Marna panchayat.

[3] An argument in favour of this origin is that the village on the other side of the Siolim (not Marna) hill is called Vagali, which could also come from the words 'Vag' + 'Halli' ("Vag" meaning "tiger" in the local Konkani language).

It was located centrally to serve the spiritual needs of the people in the villages of Anjuna, Assagao, Siolim and Oxel.

But being situated on the rising hill and probably being a makeshift kutcha structure, it did not survive many years, leaving behind the black stone cross at Sonarkhett.

This first church in Siolim was built near the site of the Mae de Deus chapel in Gaunsa-Vaddo in 1568.

The church possesses two steeples on the frontispiece and a statue of St Anthony holding a serpent on a leash.

They had with them a statue of St. Anthony and vowed that if they made it to port safely, they would build a church where they landed.

Their ship is said to have entered the Chapora River and docked on the left bank near the village of Marna.

The new church was dedicated to St. Anthony, instead of Mae de Deus (the Mother of God), and completed in 1630.

Earlier, the local Christians would attend religious services at the Military chapel at Tropa, which was raised to a Church in 1971.

* Our Lady of Sorrows (Nossa Senhora das An-gustias) Chapel: Located in Porta -Vaddo, Siolim, on the bend of the road leading to the Siolim-Chopdem-Morjim bridge.

Dedicated to goddess Sateri, it is known for the festival of Diwsans, when the temple is surrounded by a long feri.

Every year, the Super School Complex organises a common exam for students of Std X (tenth) in October.

Relatives of Pinta Xapai, who died at 114, in 1892, erected a statue of Beethoven in his courtyard in Gaunsa-Vaddo.

Three brothers from Gaunsa-Vaddo - Santa, Ganexa and Zagre Gauns - are believed to have been the first Christian converts.

Antonio Paulo Cyriaco Fernandes by his nephew, drawn out from letters to relatives in India.