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Peter Celli Street is named after petercelie — Dutch for parsley.

Street · Fort Kochi

Peter Celli Street

Named for petercelie, Dutch for parsley — Fort Kochi’s literal old street names.

180 m from Princess Street

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Did you knowWhen the Dutch rebuilt Fort Kochi on a reduced scale in 1697, they kept the street grid and gave the streets literal names: de Linde straat (Lime Tree Street), de Heere straat (Gentleman’s Street), de Peeterceelie straat (Parsley Street), de Osse straat (Ox Street), de Kalven straat (Calf Street), de Burgen straat (Citizens Street), de Bree straat (Broad Street), and de Smee straat (Smith’s Street).