Fort Kochi travel guides & top lists

A walkable peninsula of colonial streets, spice warehouses and sea-facing cafés. Here are the experiences that actually earn a place on your Fort Kochi itinerary.

Got one day? Here's how to see the best of Fort Kochi and Mattancherry without rushing — a walkable route timed around the light, the heat and the sunset.

Few places pack so much history into so little ground. Here's how Portuguese, Dutch and British Cochin, Arab and Chinese traders, and the Cochin Jews shaped one small peninsula.

Fort Kochi's most photographed sight — and a working fishery, not a museum piece. Here's the story behind the nets and how to see them at their best.

The oldest active synagogue in the Commonwealth, hidden at the end of an antique-lined lane. Here's the story of Jew Town and how to visit the Paradesi Synagogue.

Built in 1503 and once Vasco da Gama's grave, St Francis Church is a quiet, powerful marker of five centuries of colonial history.

Built by the Portuguese, renamed by the Dutch, and home to some of the finest murals in Kerala. A guide to Mattancherry Palace and its painted halls.