"If China is where you make your money, then Cochin is surely the place to spend it."

Fort Cochin is believed to be the oldest European Settlement in India and St. Francis Church was the first European Church to be built in India. Fort Cochin probably has the best preserved history of colonial times and the ideal way to bring it alive is to take a walk down its old colonial roads, with its tree-lined avenues and quaint little lands, stretching upto the beach, where magnificent Chinese fishing nets sketch a spectacular skyline.

Infact, Fort Kochi is a unique place in the whole of the world where you get to see a mosaic of the world culture, European architecture and the flora and fauna of different parts of the world. Rightly so, UNESCO has declared it as a living monument of world culture. The streets and ancient buildings in Fort Cochin, portrays a combination of different cultures, contributed from the Protugese, the British and the Dutch, who set their foot on this marvelous land, which is indeed the crown of the Queen of the Arabian Sea.