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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

A white building with a tiled roof features a row of arched openings along its front. Two of the openings contain ornate blue double doors, while a third holds a plain light blue door. Blue windows with decorative panels flank the doors on either side. Above the central door is a small sign, and above the doors on either side are additional signs with symbols. A scooter is parked on the street in front of the building, and part of another vehicle is visible at the edge of the frame. Bare tree branches appear in the upper right corner against the sky.

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

A two-story blue building with a weathered tiled roof stands on a paved street. The upper floor has several windows, some with yellow shutters open and others with black metal grilles. The ground floor features two closed metal roller shutters, a dark entrance on the left, and windows with black grilles beneath the upper windows. White text and logos are painted on the facade, including a sign near the entrance and another above the roller shutters. A vertical pipe runs along the right side of the building, and overhead wires cross the sky above.

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