Kowdiar Palace
Kowdiar Palace is the official residence of the Travancore Royal Family, situated in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. It was built in 1934 by Maharajah Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, on pallikettu of his only sister, Karthika Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi with G.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Trivandrum Golf Club and Lok Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram.
Trivandrum Golf Club
Golf course
National Golf Academy and Trivandrum Golf Club is a nine-hole golf course located at Thiruvananthapuram city in the Indian state of Kerala. Trivandrum Golf Club is situated 530 metres southeast of Kowdiar Palace.
Lok Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram
Government office
Lok Bhavan formerly Raj Bhavan is the official residence of the governor of Kerala Rajendra Arlekar. It is located in the capital city of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Lok Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram is situated 1 km south of Kowdiar Palace.
Napier Museum
Museum
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The Napier Museum is an art and natural history museum situated in Thiruvananthapuram, India. The Museum is grounds to the Thiruvananthapuram Zoo, one of the oldest zoological gardens in India. Napier Museum is situated 2 km southwest of Kowdiar Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kowdiar and Peroorkada.
Kowdiar
Suburb
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Kowdiar is one of the main localities in the city of Trivandrum, Kerala, India. It is one of the most expensive and cleanest localities in Trivandrum. It is the starting point of the Rajapatha that stretches to the East Fort.
Sasthamangalam
Suburb
Sasthamangalam is a ward in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. It is known for the Sasthamangalam Mahadevar Temple, one of the four major temples regularly visited by the Kings of Travancore, in the past.
Kowdiar Palace
- Type: Castle
- Description: palace of Kingdom of Travancore, Thiruvananthapuram
- Categories: architectural structure, palace, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Thiruvananthapuram, Southern Travancore, Kerala, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
8.524° or 8° 31′ 26″ northLongitude
76.96331° or 76° 57′ 48″ eastOpen location code
6JWRGXF7+J8OpenStreetMap ID
way 338671763OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q3530818
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In Other Languages
From Central Kurdish to Tamil—“Kowdiar Palace” goes by many names.
- Central Kurdish: “کۆشکی کۆودیار”
- Chinese: “科迪亞爾宮”
- Hindi: “कौडियार महल”
- Malayalam: “Kowdiar Palace”
- Malayalam: “കവടിയാർ കൊട്ടാരം”
- Tamil: “கௌடியர் அரண்மனை”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include kowdiar palace shuttle court and Padmanabha Court.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kowdiar Palace”. Photo: Manu rocks, CC BY-SA 3.0.