Mattancherry Jewish Heritage Tour !!!

Discover the highlights of kochi . Kochi was a fishing village in the Kingdom of Kochi in the pre-colonial Kerala. kochi is also known as the "Queen of Arabian Sea". Kochi was the centre of Indian spice trade for many centuries, because of her rich spice history kochi was attracted by most of the foreign traders. Kochi was the first european colonies for Portuguese in the colonial India from the year 1500-1663, followed by Dutch and later by the British. It is the old buildings which most clearly reveal this deep-rooted colonial influence. In 1947, when India gained independence from the British colonial rule, Cochin was the first princely state to join the Indian Union willingly. During the tour in Fort kochi, we will discover the traditional landmarks of historical Kochi, which includes ancient Chinese fishing nets, the historical European settlements like Vasco de gama church and dutch cemetry and towards the Dutch palace, a museum under ASI and walk through Jewish street towards jewish Synagogue.