Palace & château
Padmanabhapuram Palace
🇮🇳 India
- Country
- 🇮🇳 India
- Type
- Palace & château
- Fame
- Hidden gem
- Coordinates
- 8.25092°, 77.3267°
- Open data
- Wikidata Q3534509
Padmanabhapuram Palace, also known as Kalkulam Palace, is a Travancore-era palace located in Padmanabhapuram in the Kanyakumari district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The palace is owned, controlled and maintained by the Kerala Government.
Padmanabhapuram is the former capital city of the erstwhile kingdom of Travancore. It is around 20 km (12 mi) from Nagercoil, 39 km (24 mi) from Kanyakumari town and 52 km (32 mi) from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. The palace complex lies inside an old granite fortress around four kilometers long. The palace is located at the foot of the Veli Hills, part of the Western Ghats. The river Valli flows nearby.
Text adapted from “Padmanabhapuram Palace” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Padmanabhapuram Palace ranks #1,236 of 2,435 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #63 of the 80 mapped in India. See how India compares in the castle statistics.
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