Manakula Vinayagar Temple
Puducherry, Puducherry, India
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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.
Bharathi Park & Aayi Mandapam
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The green square of old Pondicherry around Napoleon III's white Aayi monument — five gates, deep shade and government-quarter calm.
Sri Aurobindo Ashram
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The heart of Pondicherry's spiritual life — the flower-heaped Samadhi of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother under the courtyard's service tree.
Puducherry Museum
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The old law building's trove — Arikamedu's Roman amphorae, Chola bronzes, French furniture and Dupleix's bed.
Gingee Salt Pans & Sunday Market
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Pondy's Goubert Market and Sunday flea sprawl — French baguettes beside banana leaves, antiques, spices and territory-cheap shopping.
Bharathi & Bharathidasan Museums
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The exile home of poet Subramania Bharathi and his disciple Bharathidasan's house — twin shrines of Tamil's fiery renaissance.
White Town French Quarter
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The grid of mustard-and-white French streets — Rue Romain Rolland's bougainvillea walls, colonial villas, cafés and gendarme-capped policemen.
French War Memorial
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The seafront monument to soldiers of French India who fell in the World Wars — lit each Bastille Day as tricolours share the sky.
Promenade Beach
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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.
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.
Rock Beach Gandhi Promenade
Puducherry, Puducherry
The evening ritual of Pondicherry — the traffic-free seafront around the Gandhi mandapam, old lighthouse and French war memorial, waves on black rock.
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.