Muziris Heritage Conservation Project

The Muziris Heritage is mind-boggling in the sheer range and grandeur of a period of history it attempts to recreate.  Like a time capsule, it takes tourists, history/culture enthusiasts, researchers and connoisseurs alike to a world that was linked by shared interests in trade, religions and cultures.  The Muziris Heritage Site conjures up a bygone era and ethos that Muziris embodied, by taking the present generation to the shores where St Thomas first arrived in order to spread Christianity in India; the first mosque which resounded with the Muslim call for prayers; the Bhagavathy temples where animal sacrifices once prevailed; the Jewish synagogues where Hebrew prayers were chanted; the old palaces and royal residences within whose walls edicts were issued, treaties signed, and stratagems plotted – in all their recreated splendour.
 
The Muziris Heritage Project aims to revive popular interest in a region which lost its glory centuries ago. Through the project, we will be able to travel back in time to a place where vibrant cultures of the East and the West met, and see the palaces of Prime Ministers of the erstwhile kingdom of Cochin, the forts built by the Portuguese that played strategic roles in wars, the Indo-Dutch architectural structures along the streets and the places where various cultures thrived through the centuries.  In short, it will give us glimpses of a magnificent past.

The Government of Kerala initiated the Muziris Heritage Project to reinstate the historical and cultural significance of the legendary port of Muziris. The region is dotted with numerous monuments of a bygone era that conjure up a vast and vivid past. The entire project is designed to involve and integrate the local community in all its intended developmental initiatives. The preservation-cum-tourism project of Muziris also provides timeline tours, culture tours, museum tours, backwater cruises, etc.