Dutch Cemetery

The Dutch Cemetery is one of Fort Kochi’s most popular tourist attractions, and it’s known for its imperial residents, who fled their homelands centuries ago to spread and develop their own empire. The Church of South India manages the cemetery, which was consecrated in 1724 and is thought to be the country’s oldest. Stories that shaped the cultural mix of an entire coast come from here. The tombstones in the Dutch Cemetery in Fort Kochi are the most authentic record of the hundreds of Europeans who left their homeland on a mission to expand their colonial empires and changed the course of this land’s history.