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| Kanchipuram |
| Kanchipuram town is also known as Silk City also its famous for temples |
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| Welcome to the city of thousand temples. Kanchipuram district is situated on the north-eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, adjacent to the Bay of Bengal and Chennai city. It is bounded in the west by Vellore and Thiruvannamalai district, in the north by Thiruvallur district and Chennai district, in the south by Villupuram district, in the east by Bay of Bengal.
Kanchipuram, one of the seven sacred cities in India was the historical capital of the Pallavas. Apart from the Pallava rulers the Cholas, Vijayanagar Kings, the Muslims and finally the Britishers too ruled this part of Tamilnadu. Tamil language flourished here. It also became the seat of culture and religion for many centuries. This city is the centre of the fine and purely woven silk sarees. Tourists can see umpteen number of temples in Kanchipuram. The city is replete with a number of both salivate and vaishnavaite temples. The famous vaishnavaite temple here is Lord Varadharaja Perumal temples. It is also one of the 108 holiest vaishnavaite temples. It is also one of the (five elements of nature land, water, sky, fire, wind) five scared places of the saivites referring to five elements of nature. Lord shiva is worshipped here in the form of Prithiv Lingam. Another famous shrine here ?Lord Ekambareswar? belonging to the saivite sect. The temples are a perfect example of the Dravidian architectural style. Other specialties of Kanchipuram are, this is the place where Adi Shakaracharya planted and developed his centre for religion i.e. the Kamakotipeetam and C.N. Annadurai the former chief Minister of the State, Tamilnadu.
Kanchipuram is hailed as textile city the place is both handloom as well as machine woven silks sarees. The sarees manufactured here are famous across the globe.
The important tourists spots here are as follows Arignar Anna Zoological Park, Mahabalipuram, Kishkintha, Uthiramerur, Queen?s Land theme park, vedanthangal birds sanctuary and kalpakkam rector research centre. |
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