Saraswathi Temple, Koothanur

A Murugan temple on the Tiruvarur-Thanjavur road listed among the district's official places of interest. It is known for its sculpture of the deity mounted on a peacock and is a locally important shrine to Subramanya. It draws devotees on Murugan festival days in the delta.

A district museum under the Tamil Nadu Department of Museums, housing temple bronzes, sculptures, and anthropology, geology and zoology specimens. Its galleries include Jain and Buddhist artefacts and a display of ancient musical instruments, fitting for a town celebrated as the birthplace of the Carnatic Music Trinity. It offers a secular counterpoint to the district's many temples.

A Paadal Petra Sthalam Shiva temple and one of the Pancha Aranya Sthalams, associated with a former forest of bilva (vilva) trees, the temple's sacred tree. The deity is worshipped as Vilvaranyeswarar with the goddess Soundara Nayaki. It is revered in the Tevaram hymns of Tirugnanasambandar.

A Shiva temple on the southern bank of the Cauvery, revered as the 70th Paadal Petra Sthalam in the 7th-century Tevaram hymns. It is one of very few temples with a separate shrine for Yama, the god of death, seated beside Chitragupta. Regarded as a Mukti (Moksha) Sthalam where those who die are believed to attain liberation, it draws pilgrims performing death and ancestral rites.

Vishnu temple counted among the 108 Divya Desams, praised by Thirumangai Alvar, where Vishnu is Bhaktavatsala Perumal with consort Kannamangai Nayagi, and a five-tier rajagopuram of Chola origins.

Delta town and taluk headquarters between Thiruvarur and Nagapattinam, set amid lower-Cauvery paddy country and anchoring a cluster of small Chola-era village temples.

Shiva temple at Alangudi (Tiru Irum Poolai) in Valangaiman taluk that is the Guru (Jupiter/Brihaspati) shrine of the Navagraha circuit, a Paadal Petra Sthalam drawing heavy crowds on Guru transit days.

Cauvery-delta market town at the junction of the Thiruvarur, Thanjavur and Nagapattinam roads, gateway to the Alangudi Guru temple and a traditional agrarian hub.

A Paadal Petra Sthalam Shiva temple where Sambandar and Appar are said to have received gold coins from the deity during a famine to feed devotees. It is famous for the annual Annabhishekam, when the lingam is bathed in cooked rice, and for the legend of Shiva offering one of his eyes. The temple is closely tied to the Tevaram Nayanmars.

The roughly 25-acre temple tank of the Thyagaraja Temple, among the largest in India, with a central mandapam reached by boat and small shrines around its banks.

A popular Mariamman temple, also called Paadaikavadi Mariamman, on the Mannargudi road about 9 km from Kumbakonam and listed among the district's official places of interest. It is a folk-goddess shrine that draws large crowds during its annual festival. It represents the Amman (village-goddess) tradition alongside the district's Agamic temples.

A Paadal Petra Sthalam Shiva temple centred on a palmyra tree (panai) that is the temple's sacred tree and gives the village its name. It is counted as the 190th Devaram Paadal Petra Sthalam and the 73rd on the southern bank of the Cauvery. The deity is worshipped as Soundareswarar and the temple is glorified in the Tevaram hymns.