Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, is a historic city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. The city is also known as the City of Spices. It was among the most important ports in the
Kozhikode beach kites
IIM Kozhikode Aerial View s
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese mariner, explorer and nobleman. His discovery of the first direct maritime route between Europe and India via the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean from Mali
Kozhikode
…Spices. It was among the most important ports in the world during medieval times and have received visitors from Marco Polo to Ibn Batuta to Zheng He to Vasco da Gama. It is the nineteenth-largest urban agglomeration in the country and the second-largest one in Kerala. Calicut city is the second-largest city proper…
Anonymous portrait, c. 1525
Bronze statue of Vasco da Gama at his birthplace, Sines, Portugal
Vasco da Gama leaving the port of Lisbon, Portugal
Monument to the Cross of Vasco da Gama at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa