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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 Madras Railway was established later in 1845 and the construction on the first main line between Madras and Arcot started in 1853, which became operational in 1856. [324] In 1944, all the railway companies operating in British India were taken over by the Government. [ 325 ]
Mamallapuram (also known as Mahabalipuram [4]), is a town in Chengalpattu district in the southeastern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, best known for the UNESCO World Heritage Site of 7th- and 8th-century Hindu Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram. It is one of the famous tourist sites in India. [5] The ancient name of the place is Thirukadalmallai.
Madras was the capital of the Madras Presidency, also called Madras Province. Bazaar at Madras, from The Graphic, 1875 By the end of 1783, the great 18th century wars which saw the British and French battle from Europe to North America and from the Mediterranean to India, resulted in the British being in complete control of the city's regional ...
The Government Museum, Chennai, or the Madras Museum, is a museum of human history and culture located in the Government Museum Complex in the neighbourhood of Egmore in Chennai, India. Started in 1851, it is the second oldest museum in India after the Indian Museum in Kolkata. It is particularly rich in archaeological and numismatic collections.
San Thome Basilica is the principal church of the Madras-Mylapore Roman Catholic Archdiocese. In 1956, Pope Pius XII raised the church to the status of a Minor Basilica, and on 11 February 2006, it was declared a national shrine by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India. It is an important pilgrimage center for the Syrian Christians of ...
Red Fort building at the Madras Medical College: 1897 Park Town [47] 62 King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research: 1899 Anna Salai, Guindy: 63 Dobbin Hall 1904–05 Madras Veterinary College (now located opposite) started functioning. 64 National Art Gallery: Indo-Saracenic: 1906 Henry Irwin: Egmore: 65 Egmore Railway Station: Indo ...
Wesleyan Chapel, Popham's Broadway, Madras (January 1848, p.1, V) [1] Plan of Fort St George and the city of Madras in 1726. Up until the 16th century, the road and the surrounding region, being near the coast, had many sand ridges.