A virtual walk through Madurai

The temple city that never sleeps, wrapped in jasmine.

Free, runs in your browser. 14 kinds of place: station, temple, market, monument, palace, church, mosque, lake, museum, park, bridge, dargah, hill temple, rock.

Places you can walk to in Madurai

• 🚉 Madurai JunctionBusy junction a short walk west of the temple.
• 🛕 Meenakshi Amman TempleFourteen gopurams covered in painted figures: the heart of Madurai.
• 🧺 Puthu MandapamA 17th-century pillared hall full of tailors and brass shops.
• 🏛️ VilakkuthoonThe old lamp pillar at the centre of a busy market square.
• 👑 Thirumalai Nayakkar MahalA 1636 palace of giant white pillars and arches.
• ⛪ St. Mary's CathedralTwin-towered cathedral near the palace.
• 🕌 Kazimar Big MosqueThe oldest mosque in Madurai, from the 13th century.
• 🛕 Koodal Azhagar TempleVishnu temple with a rare three-tier sanctum.
• 🪷 Vandiyur Mariamman TeppakulamA huge temple tank with a pavilion on its island.
• 🖼️ Gandhi Memorial MuseumIn the Tamukkam palace; keeps the cloth Gandhi wore on 30 January 1948.
• 🌳 Rajaji ParkChildren's park beside the Gandhi Museum.
• 🌉 A. V. BridgeThe 1889 Albert Victor bridge across the Vaigai.
• 🕌 Goripalayam DargahA domed dargah north of the river, carved from a single stone.
• ⛰️ Thiruparankundram Murugan TempleRock-cut temple at the foot of a granite hill, first of Murugan's six abodes.
• 🪨 YanaimalaiElephant Hill: a long granite rock shaped like a resting elephant.