Ranked by how much each place adds to a visit, with realistic visiting times, opening hours and ticket prices.
7 places · showing 1–7
1
A vast working temple to Meenakshi and Sundareswarar with fourteen gopurams covered in thousands of painted stucco figures.
2
The stalls that open after 10pm around the temple and on the Masi streets — kari dosai, jigarthanda, idli and mutton chukka past midnight.
3
The 1636 palace of the Nayak ruler, with a colonnaded courtyard of 25-metre columns and a nightly sound and light show.
4
One of five Gandhi museums in India, in a 17th-century Nayak palace, holding the blood-stained dhoti he was wearing when assassinated.
5
A 17th-century pillared hall on the temple's east side, now filled with tailors, brass sellers and sculpture shops between carved columns.
6
A Vishnu temple in the hills 21 km north-east, central to the Chithirai festival when Alagar rides down to the Vaigai.
7
A vast square temple tank fed by the Vaigai, with a central island pavilion and a float festival in January or February.