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Food at Club House Restaurant, Fort Kochi.

Club House Restaurant

French omelettes at breakfast, late-night food when the rest has closed.

Restaurant · Kapithan House, Princess Street, Fort Kochi

A large flock of pigeons on a paved courtyard in front of a tall painted pillar with panels of religious symbols.

Dharmanath Jain Temple

Thousands of pigeons descend for grain around 12:15 daily.

Place of worship · Gujarati Road, Mattancherry

St. Francis Church, Fort Kochi, the oldest European church in India.Ranjith Siji, 19 September 2016, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

St. Francis CSI Church

Vasco da Gama was buried here for fourteen years; the empty slab remains.

Church · Saint Francis Church Road, Fort Kochi

Photo of 111 Markaz & Cafe

111 Markaz & Cafe

No large sign — glass from Palestine and pepper-route history inside.

Event venue

From the story ‘Things to Do in Fort Kochi’.

Anand Warehouse

A two-hundred-year-old godown turned demanding contemporary-art space.

Event venue

Exhibition view of ‘நகவெட்டி nagavetti’ at Aspinwall House, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025–26.

Aspinwall House

The main Biennale venue, once headquarters of a British trading firm.

Event venue · Calvetty Road, Fort Kochi

David Hall Art Gallery and Cafe in Fort Kochi, Kochi. Photograph taken on 13 March 2016.Kanad Sanyal, 13 March 2016, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

David Hall-Art Gallery & Cafe

An old Dutch house with three thick-walled rooms and a garden.

Art gallery · Opp Parade Ground, Fort Kochi

Photo of Devassy Jose & Sons

Devassy Jose & Sons

An old commercial building turned Biennale exhibition space.

Event venue · Bazaar Road, Mattancherry

The Kaycee Corporation warehouse in Mattancherry in 1976. A painted board above the open loading bay reads KAYCEE CORPORATION, SPICES | DRY FRUITS. A man stacks sacks onto a truck at the kerb and a bicycle leans by the door.Courtesy Kaycee Corporation

Kaycee Corporation

Ceylon cinnamon and cassia on the same shelf, and cashews graded by the number.

Shop · Mattancherry

Clock tower beside the Paradesi Synagogue in Mattancherry, Kochi. The clock tower was commissioned by Ezekiel Rahabi in 1760 and remained functional until 1930; its four faces used Latin, Hebrew, and Malayalam numerals.Vinayak v nair, 27 September 2018, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Paradesi Synagogue

Hundreds of hand-painted blue-and-white Chinese tiles, no two alike.

Synagogue

Exhibition view at Pepper House, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025–26.

Pepper House

A former spice warehouse turned courtyard, gallery, café and library.

Event venue · Calvetty Road, near Hotel Seagull, Fort Kochi

Vine-covered shopfront with a round sign reading ‘idha’

Peter Celli Street

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

Street

Terracotta bust sculptures of faces and figures arranged on a white plinth at SMS Hall, framed drawings on the walls behind.

SMS Hall

A Biennale venue near Anand Warehouse, on bodies, waste and memory.

Event venue