Places to Visit in Fort

A single strip of coast, a company clerk with an eye for trade, and a fort finished on St. George's Day. This is how the city of Madras began.

A calm walk through Chennai’s essentials — its long Marina shore, the Mylapore temples, the colonial fort and the Chola-bronze museums.

One city, two landmarks that could hardly be less alike: a gleaming modern temple sheathed in gold, and a squat granite fort that once shook the East India Company.

A goddess became a peahen to stay near the god she loved. That single legend named a neighbourhood, and around it rose one of Chennai's most beloved temples.

Devotional tradition places the tomb of one of Jesus's twelve apostles beneath a white church on the Chennai shore — one of only three such churches in the world.

They came as traders, printed the world's first Armenian journal, and then quietly disappeared, leaving one walled church on Armenian Street to remember them by.

Eight places within about two hours of the city, sorted by what each one is for, with approximate road distances and a sensible way to fit one into a single day.

Three well-paced days in the Tamil Nadu capital: British-era Fort St George and the Government Museum, Mylapore’s temple quarter and the beaches, then a drive down the ECR to the Pallava stone temples of Mahabalipuram.

One unhurried week from Chennai to Kanyakumari, taking in Pallava rock temples, the Chola heartland, Madurai and India’s southern tip.