Tharangambadi (Tranquebar) Town & Beach

A living Shiva temple associated with Markandeya and milestone-age ceremonies. Confirm the entrance directly because nearby map labels can lead to a different temple.

A shore Shiva temple built in 1306 by the Pandya king Maravarman Kulasekara Pandyan I, standing by the sea just north of Fort Dansborg.

Danish fort begun in 1620 by admiral Ove Gjedde, the second-largest Danish fort ever built; now an ASI museum displaying Danish colonial and Nayak-era artefacts.

Consecrated in 1718 by pioneering Danish missionary Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, one of India's oldest Protestant churches, with Ziegenbalg's grave on site.

One of the earliest Danish Protestant churches in India (built 1701), a landmark of the historic Tranquebar Mission.

A maritime museum housed in the Van Theylingen House, an 18th-century bungalow that was once the residence of the Danish commander of Tranquebar. Its collection displays remains of an old ship along with boats, models and other maritime artifacts recalling the town's era as a Danish trading colony. It sits within Tranquebar's compact heritage quarter alongside Fort Dansborg, the town gate and the colonial mansions of King Street.

A group of restored 18th-century Danish colonial mansions lining King Street inside the walled town of Tranquebar, including Rehling's House and the seafront Bungalow on the Beach, which originally served as the Danish-era courthouse and collector's residence. They showcase a fusion of European and Tamil coastal architecture and are the best-preserved civic remnants of Denmark's Indian outpost. Several are now conserved as heritage hotels, anchoring Tranquebar's rare surviving Danish colonial townscape.