Converted club premises with private-pool villas and mature gardens.
11, Melakkal Main Road, Kochadai
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A 17th-century pillared hall on the temple's east side, now filled with tailors, brass sellers and sculpture shops between carved columns.
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The stalls that open after 10pm around the temple and on the Masi streets — kari dosai, jigarthanda, idli and mutton chukka past midnight.
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A vast working temple to Meenakshi and Sundareswarar with fourteen gopurams covered in thousands of painted stucco figures.
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The 1636 palace of the Nayak ruler, with a colonnaded courtyard of 25-metre columns and a nightly sound and light show.
Well-run mid-range hotel with a rooftop restaurant looking at the temple gopurams.