The Places of Interest in Chennai City...

High court (Parry’s corner)
Built in 1892, the building compresses, besides the High Court, the small Causes Court and the City Civil Court.

The imposing Indo-Saracenic style building has beautiful domes, a grand central cupola – once a lighthouse-and lost of stained glass windows. A tall granite Doric column, 49 m above sea level, was erected in 1841 to serve as the stand for the second Chennai Lighthouse and remained so until the tallest minaret in the High Court buildings was put to use in 1894. This gave way recently to the new lighthouse on the beach. The Doric column still stands tall, an ornament to the beach. The interior of the court buildings was put to use in1894. This gave way recently to the new lighthouse on the beach. The Doric column still stands tall, an ornament to the campus. The interior of the court buildings is a veritable labyrinth of corridors, vestibules and stairways.

The Law College next door has twin minarets. And built as it was on an old cemetery site, it retains links with the past in a mausoleum entombing David Yale, son of Governor Elihu Yale.

Island Grounds
Theses vast grounds on an island formed by the river Kuvam are the venue of the annual Tourism and Trade Fair held during january-March.

War Memorial
Erected in 1932, this graceful monument near Island Grounds was built to commemorate the victory of the Allied forces in the First World War in 1918. Another commemoration was added after the Second World War, and later on, during the central obelisk to honour the soldiers of the Indian Army who fought four wars after Independence.

The Marina Beach
The wide road and an elegant promenade are both an intrinsic part of beautiful Marina-the second longest beach in the world.
The beach drive runs between magnificent stately portion of the chariot has bas bas-relief sculptures depicting the 133 chapters of the sacred Thirukkural’. The Valluver Kottam auditorium seats 4000 and claims to have Asia’s largest seating capacity. The lovely, terraced roof garden has two large pools.

Anna Salai
Formerly konwn as Mount Road, this 16km long arterial road starts at St. Thomas Mount in the outskirts and cuts across the heart of the heart of the city. It is Chennai’s most famous promenade and a busy commercial center.

Theosophical Society (Adyar)
The world Headquarters of the spiritual society founded by Madame H.P. Blavatsky and Col. Olcott, and to which Annie Besant and Arundale belonged, was originally formed in USA. in 1886 Adyar was chosen as the headquarters of this spiritual movement.

The Headquarters building is a splendid old mansion set in gardens of lyrical charm, There are shrines to all faiths in its grounds, of which the Buddhist one is particularly attractive. The utterly calm, greenery-shrouded’ Garden of Remembrance’ is perfect for peaceful meditation.
The 90-year old library of the society has an invaluable collection of oriental manuscripts both on palm-leaf and parchment.

Kalakshetra(Tiruvanmiyur)
This temple of art’ was founded in 1936 by Rukmini Devi Arinded, the renowned Bharatanatyam denseuse. Devoted to reviving classical dance froms and Bharatanatyam in particular apart from music, fine art, traditional weaving and textile designing, kalakshetra ranks amongst the country’s finest dance schools.

Guindy National Park (Guindy)
Possibly the world’s only game reserve situated within city limits. This small National park has a large population of spotted deer apart from blackbuck, civet cat, jackal, mongoose, ,monkeys, reptiles and some bird life. Aunique snake park, reptillium and an amusement park for Childern can be found near its main entrance.
The snake park collection includes king cobras, banded kraits, Russell vipers and pythons.


Tidel Park
This sprawling new complex at Taramani is considered to be the best and largest of it’s kind in Asia. Tidel park offers office space to various companies in the information Technology industry.