Bharathi & Bharathidasan Museums
Puducherry, Puducherry, India
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Gingee Salt Pans & Sunday Market
Puducherry, Puducherry
Pondy's Goubert Market and Sunday flea sprawl — French baguettes beside banana leaves, antiques, spices and territory-cheap shopping.
Raj Nivas
Puducherry, Puducherry
Dupleix's 18th-century palace, now the Lt. Governor's residence — French India's grandest surviving building, open on select visiting days.
Manakula Vinayagar Temple
Puducherry, Puducherry
A pre-French Ganesha temple in White Town's heart — 40 Ganesha forms in gold frieze, and Lakshmi the temple elephant's famous blessings.
Bharathi Park & Aayi Mandapam
Puducherry, Puducherry
The green square of old Pondicherry around Napoleon III's white Aayi monument — five gates, deep shade and government-quarter calm.
Immaculate Conception Cathedral
Puducherry, Puducherry
The 300-year 'Samba Kovil' — mother church of Pondicherry, its blue-and-white Portuguese-baroque calm rebuilt thrice since 1692.
Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Puducherry, Puducherry
The heart of Pondicherry's spiritual life — the flower-heaped Samadhi of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother under the courtyard's service tree.
Sri Varadaraja Perumal Temple
Puducherry, Puducherry
The 11th-century Chola-era Vishnu temple of old Puducherry — the town's most ancient shrine, predating every colonial stone.
Puducherry Museum
Puducherry, Puducherry
The old law building's trove — Arikamedu's Roman amphorae, Chola bronzes, French furniture and Dupleix's bed.
Sri Kanniga Parameswari Temple
Puducherry, Puducherry
A rare Franco-Tamil temple — Gallic pillars and arched windows wrapping a Devi sanctum, colonial craftsmanship in service of the goddess.
White Town French Quarter
Puducherry, Puducherry
The grid of mustard-and-white French streets — Rue Romain Rolland's bougainvillea walls, colonial villas, cafés and gendarme-capped policemen.
Ananda Ranga Pillai Mansion
Puducherry, Puducherry
The 1738 Indo-French mansion of Dupleix's famous diarist — Tamil courtyard below, French colonnade above, history's best gossip within.
Promenade Beach
Puducherry, Puducherry
Pondicherry's 1.5-km seafront where French colonial facades face the Bay of Bengal — traffic-free evenings fill it with strollers past Gandhi's statue, the old lighthouse and café terraces; sunrise here, croissant after, is the Pondy ritual.