THIRUMALAI NAYAK PALACE

This wonderful palace is of course built by the great king Thirumalai Nayak himself in the year 1636. The huge Palace runs towards the south - east of the Meenakshi temple. The Palace that we find now is just one forth of the original one because the grandson of Thirumalai Nayak, Chokkanatha Nayak, dismantled the constructions, took away the jewels and wood sculptures to Tiruchirappalli to build a temple of his own. But this one fourth of the Palace, which now stands, has a very perfect structure and the grandeur of the architecture will surely be highlighted to the visitors. Lord Napier, governor of Chennai, renovated it twice, once and then the second time for the Tamil World Conference in 1971.