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Tamil Nadu
Chettinad, centred on Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu, is a region famous for the grand mansions of the Nattukottai Chettiar merchant community and for one of India's…
Chidambaram is an ancient pilgrimage town near the coastal plains of Cuddalore district in Tamil Nadu, and the reason to come is the Thillai Nataraja Temple.
Dindigul Fort is a hilltop fortress rising about 900 feet above Dindigul town in Tamil Nadu, with a fortification circumference of about 2.75 km enclosing 48…
Fort St George, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, was built in 1644 as the first British garrison settlement in India, marking the start of British colonial presence in…
Gingee Fort stands in Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu, about 160 km from Chennai, built across three hills with roughly 13 km of fortification walls up to 20…
Kanchipuram, the 'City of a Thousand Temples', is one of Hinduism's seven sacred Sapta Puri cities and a great centre of Dravidian temple architecture.
At the southernmost tip of mainland India, Kanyakumari is famous for sunrises and sunsets over three converging seas, the Vivekananda Rock and the…
The Meenakshi Amman Temple stands at the heart of Madurai, an ancient city on the banks of the Vaigai River, and it is the great Dravidian temple complex of…
Mahabalipuram, historically known as Mamallapuram, sits on the Bay of Bengal roughly 55 km south of Chennai and is known for its rock monuments carved in the…
One of the world's longest urban beaches, Chennai's Marina is a vast city shoreline of promenades, statues, sunrise crowds and street food along the Bay of…
Namakkal Fort sits on a single massive rock rising sheer from the middle of its namesake town.
Ooty sits at 2,240 metres and was built by the British as a hot-weather escape, which is still exactly what it is used for — and why April and May are the…
Rameshwaram sits at the very tip of a slender island connected to the Tamil Nadu mainland by the Pamban Bridge, looking out across the Palk Strait toward Sri…
Srirangam is a temple town on an island between the Kaveri and Kollidam rivers near Tiruchirappalli.
Thanjavur, once Tanjore, sits in the fertile Kaveri delta and is dominated by the Brihadeeswarar Temple — the 'Big Temple'.
Thirumayam's ring fort was built in 1687 by Vijaya Raghunatha Sethupathi of Ramanathapuram and later held by the Tondaiman rulers of Pudukkottai.
A former Danish colonial town on the Tamil coast, Tharangambadi pairs a quiet beach with the seafront Dansborg Fort and atmospheric colonial streets.
Velankanni, the 'Lourdes of the East', is the largest Christian pilgrimage centre in India — home to the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health on the Bay of…
Vellore Fort is a granite fortress in the centre of Vellore town, Tamil Nadu, spanning about 133 acres and surrounded by a wide moat that once held crocodiles.
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