Fort St. George
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Parthasarathy Temple Triplicane
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
An 8th-century Pallava shrine to Krishna as Arjuna's charioteer — the moustached deity still bears the scars of Bhishma's arrows.
Marina Beach
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
The world's second-longest urban beach — 13 km of golden sand from the fort to Besant Nagar, alive with sundal sellers, kite-flyers and statue promenades.
Government Museum Egmore
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
India's second-oldest museum (1851) — the world's finest Chola bronze gallery, Amaravati marbles and the red-domed Indo-Saracenic campus.
San Thome Basilica
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
A neo-Gothic basilica built over the tomb of St. Thomas the Apostle — one of only three churches in the world raised on an apostle's grave.
Semmozhi Poonga
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
A 20-acre botanical garden in the heart of Cathedral Road — themed flora, a century-old heritage tree and bonsai courts.
Kapaleeshwarar Temple
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Mylapore's 7th-century Shiva temple with a 37-m rainbow gopuram — the beating heart of old Madras, ringed by classical music and jasmine lanes.
Valluvar Kottam
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
A 39-m stone temple-chariot memorial to poet-saint Thiruvalluvar, its walls carved with all 1,330 couplets of the Thirukkural.
Theosophical Society Adyar
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
260 riverside acres of world-faith shrines and one of the world's largest banyan trees — the global headquarters of the Theosophists since 1882.
Elliot's Beach Besant Nagar
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Marina's mellow southern sister — 'Bessie' beach with the Karl Schmidt memorial, café rows and the Ashtalakshmi temple on the shore.
Guindy National Park
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
One of the world's few national parks inside a metro — blackbuck and chital in tropical dry evergreen behind Raj Bhavan, with a snake park at the gate.