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Alappuzha Town travel guides & top lists

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The white marble Swetamber Jain temple at Alappuzha, with carved pillars, a stepped porch and two carved marble elephants flanking the entrance

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A white marble Jain temple with marble elephants, in a Kerala coir town

A white-marble Jain shrine on Gujarati Street adds another chapter to Alappuzha’s trading-town history. Check current visitor access before entering.

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A street in Alappuzha roofed over with brightly coloured pleated decorations and strings of lights during Mullakkal Chirappu, crowded with people and stalls

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Mullakkal Chirappu brings Alappuzha’s temple streets into festival season

The final 11 days of Mullakkal’s 41-day festival bring processions, cultural programmes and crowds to central Alappuzha. Confirm this year’s dates before travelling.

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The rows of rusted iron stumps of the old sea piers running out from Alappuzha beach into a flat grey sea, with people walking on the sand

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Twenty museums were announced for Alappuzha. Check what is open before you go.

It is the most ambitious heritage conversion announced in India, and it may well be excellent. It is also being described online in a tense that does not tell you whether you can walk into any of it this week.

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