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Lighthouse Attractions In Chennai District

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Chennai district, formerly known as Madras district or Madarasapattinam, is a district in the state of Tamil Nadu, in India. It is the smallest of all the districts in the state, but has the highest human density. The district is a city district which means that it does not have a district headquarters. Most of the Greater Chennai City comes under this district, erstwhile under Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts . As of 2011, the district had a population of 8,946,732 with a sex-ratio of 989 females for every 1,000 males.Expansion of the district due to take place in April 2018 will align the district with the Greater Chennai Corporation boundary, a...
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Lighthouse Attractions In Chennai District

  • 1. Mamallapuram Lighthouse Chennai Madras
    The group of monuments at Mahabalipuram is a collection of 7th- and 8th-century CE religious monuments in the coastal resort town of Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, India and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, about 60 kilometres south of Chennai.The site has 400 ancient monuments and Hindu temples, including one of the largest open-air rock reliefs in the world: the Descent of the Ganges or Arjuna's Penance. The group contains several categories of monuments: ratha temples with monolithic processional chariots, built between 630 and 668; mandapa viharas with narratives from the Mahabharata and Shaivic, Shakti and Vaishna inscriptions in a number of Indian languages and scripts; rock reliefs ; stone-cut temples built between 695 and 722, and archaeo...
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