Chennai is the capital city of Tamilnadu State. It is one of the metropolis of India and
serves as the gateway of the culture
of South India. In spite of being the
capital of a
Tamil speaking State, it has emerged as a cosmopolitan city
playing an important role in the historical, cultural and intellectual
development of India, representing still the distinct components of the highest
form of
Dravidian civilisation. In addition,
it holds out an interesting fair of
South Indian architecture, music, dance, drama, sculpture and other arts
and crafts.
Places of
Interest
Marina
Beach
Marina beach in Chennai along the Bay of Bengal is India’s
longest and world’s second longest beach. This predominantly sandy of nearly 12
kilometers extends from Beasant Nagar in the south to Fort St. George in the
north. Chennai Marina beach was renovated by Governor Mountstuart Elphinstone
Grant Duff in 1880s. All tourists traveling to Chennai never miss visiting this
grand Chennai beach.Marina beach is easily accessible by buses, taxis, two and
three wheelers.
Government
Museum
Established in 1851, Government Museum of Chennai is popular
as the Madras Museum. Factually being the second oldest museum of India (after
Kolkata’s Indian Museum), this museum is a treasure in itself! As a rich
repository of finest masterpieces of art, archaeology, anthropology,
numismatics and much more, the Madras Museum assures to lure one and all.Spread
across an area of 16.25 acres of land, the Government Museum is also counted
among the largest museums of South Asia.
Fort
St. George
The Fort is a stronghold with 6 metres (20 ft) high walls
that withstood a number of assaults in the 18th century. It briefly passed into
the possession of the French from 1746 to 1749, but was restored to Great
Britain under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the War of the
Austrian Succession. Fort now serves as one of the administrative headquarters
for the legislative assembly of Tamil Nadu state and it still houses a garrison
of troops in transit to various locations at South India and the Andamans. The
Fort Museum contains many relics of the Raj era, including portraits of many of
the Governors of Madras. The fort is maintained and administered by the
Archaeological Survey of India as a ticketed monument.
St
Mary’s Church
This church is the oldest Anglican church in India. It was
built between 1678 and 1680 on the orders of the then Agent of Madras
Streynsham Master.[12] The tombstones in its graveyard are the oldest English
or British tombstones in India. This ancient prayer house solemnised the
marriages of Robert Clive and Governor Elihu Yale, who later became the first
benefactor of Yale University in the United States.
- By Bhavya Bhatia
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