Kerala. Kochchi

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In staff the modern industry is born also. It especially you feel, being in Kochchi. A city where the past so closely intertwines with the present, name ' Venice of the East ', ' the Queen of Arabian sea '. Both that and another is fair, as Kochchi possesses one of the best in the world of natural harbours in which for a long time there was a large port. Its turnover of goods by the end of 70th years has reached 5 million tons.

At Kochchi rich history. Its inhabitants struggled against the Portuguese, Dutch and English colonizers. The Christian cathedrals which have remained from those years, inhabited and office buildings remind of a colonial epoch. In Kochchi some centuries lived the Jewish immigrants, their synagogue constructed in 1568 till now has remained. In this city of veins, has died and the Portuguese seafarer who in 1498 has opened a sea way to India has been buried in church Sacred Frantsiska Vasko yes Din-great, having begun the first colonial captures in this country.

But today Kochchi attracts attention not only and not so much historical monuments, beauty of the harbour, and first of all quickly growing modern industry, that important role which he plays economic development of staff.

The ship-building factory from which building berths the first already descend 75-tysjachetonnye dry-cargo vessels Is constructed. In Kochchi works and the big oil refinery continues to extend, the large factory of chemical fertilizers is under construction.