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Sri Lakshmi Narayani Golden Temple complex inside the Thirupuram spiritual park is situated at the foot of a small range of green hills at Thirumalaikodi (or simply Malaikodi) Vellore in Tamil Nadu, India. It is 120 km from Tirupati, 145 km from Chennai, 160 km from Pondicherry and 200 km from Bengaluru.
Padmanabhapuram Palace, also known as Kalkulam Palace, is a Travancore-era palace located in Padmanabhapuram in the Kanyakumari district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The palace is owned, controlled and maintained by the Kerala Government. Padmanabhapuram is the former capital city of the erstwhile kingdom of Travancore.
The Padmanabhaswamy temple treasure is a collection of valuable objects including gold thrones, crowns, coins, statues and ornaments, diamonds and other precious stones. It was discovered in some of the subterranean vaults of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, in the Indian state of Kerala, when five of its six (or possibly eight) vaults were opened on 27 June 2011.
Athangudi Palace - Chettinad Palace House in Athangudi, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu; Gajlaxmi Palace - Palace of Singhdeo dynasty, Dhenkanal princely state in Dhenkanal, Odisha; Bara Imambara - leisure court of Awadh Nawab, Lucknow; Ramnagar Fort - Palace of Kashinaresh, Bhumihar king of Benaras state .
Mahabalipuram Shore Temple is a major tourist attraction Bharatanatyam dance. Chennai had been the most visited city in India by foreign tourists consecutively from 2010 [2] to 2012, [3] [4] overtaking New Delhi and Mumbai with visitors to heritage sites in Kanchipuram and Mahabalipuram and medical tourists making up the largest numbers.
The neighbourhood had remained a dense neem forest since the ancient times. This resulted in the locality being called Velakadu, meaning "jungle of neem".The presence of a snake pit where goddess Karumari (Parvathi) is believed to be residing in the form of snake eventually gave the name Thiruverkadadu, with thiru being the Tamil equivalent of the honorific Hindu term "Sri".
In Tamil Nadu, Chettinad houses are found in many places such as Karaikkudi, Pallatthur, Attangudi and Kothamangalam. These houses are like palaces having ornamental works throughout the building and wood works carried out from the wood which was imported, many of them from East Asian countries and Europe. Valuable teak wood, marbles and ...