Things to do in Cochin, Kerala
26 places to visit in and around Cochin, best known first. Tap a place for directions, or let Turkart turn them into a day-by-day plan.
- 1Fort Kochi Beach
Fort Kochi Beach is a beach along the Arabian Sea, situated in the Fort Kochi neighbourhood of the city of Kochi in Kerala, South India.
- 2Fort Emmanuel
Fort Emmanuel, also known as Fort Manuel, is a ruined fort located at Fort Kochi Beach in Kochi, Kerala, India. It was built by the Portuguese to be a bastion & a symbol of the strategic alliance between the Kingdom of Cochin and the Kingdom of Portugal.
- 3Indo-Portuguese Museum
The Indo-Portuguese Museum is a museum in Fort Kochi, Kerala, India.
- 4Dutch Cemetery, Fort Kochi
Dutch Cemetery, Kochi is a historic Christian cemetery at Fort Kochi, in Kochi, in the Indian state of Kerala.
- 5Mattancherry Palace
The Mattancherry Palace is a palace popularly known as the Dutch Palace, in Mattancherry, Kochi, in the Indian state of Kerala which features Kerala murals depicting portraits and exhibits of the Rajas of Kochi.
- 6Mangalavanam Bird Sanctuary
Mangalavanam is an ecologically sensitive area situated at the centre of the Indian city of Kochi, covering about 2.74 hectares. It also houses a shallow tidal lake connected with Kochi backwaters by a canal.
- 7Cochin Port Maritime Heritage Museum
The Cochin Port Maritime Heritage Museum is a museum located on Willingdon Island in Kochi, Kerala. The museum has rare collection of photographs related to the evolution of Cochin as a port city.
- 8Church of Saint Francis, Kochi
Saint Francis Church, in Fort Kochi, Kochi, originally built in 1503, is one of the oldest European churches in India and has historical significance as a witness to the European colonial ambitions in the subcontinent.
- 9Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica, Kochi
The Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica, also known as Kotta Palli or Kottepalli, is located in Fort Kochi, Kochi. It is one of the thirty-four basilicas in India and one of nine in Kerala.
- 10Church of Our Lady of Hope
Church of Our Lady of Hope is a Latin Church parish in the Diocese of Cochin.
- 11Kochi Jain temple
The Kochi Jain temple or Dharmanath Jain temple is a Jain temple in the Mattancherry in Kochi, Kerala.
- 12Church of Our Lady of Life
Our Lady of Life Church (Portuguese: Igreja da Nossa Senhora da Vida is a Roman Catholic Church in Ernakulam district, Mattancherry, Kerala, India. It was built in the 16th-century and practices under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cochin.
- 13National Shrine Basilica of Our Lady of Ransom
- 14Chempittapally
- 15St. Mary's Syro-Malabar Cathedral Basilica, Ernakulam
- 16Syro-Malabar Church
- 17Ernakulam Shiva Temple
- 18St Louis Church, Mundamveli
- 19Chittoor Sree Krishnaswamy Temple
- 20Tirunettur Mahadeva Temple
- 21St. George's Syro-Malabar Forane Church, Edappally
- 22St. Francis Xavier's Church, Pizhala
- 23Edappally Juma Mosque
- 24St. Lawrence Church, Edacochin
- 25Subhash Bose Park
- 26Changampuzha Park