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Chennai, India
6 places worth your time in Chennai, with what each is actually like and when to go.
A 7th-century Shiva temple rebuilt in the 16th, with a gopuram covered in painted figures and a tank beside it.
One of the longest urban beaches in the world, and a public space rather than a swimming beach — the current is dangerous.
The first English fortress in India, from 1644, still an active government complex with a museum and St Mary's Church inside.
An hour south, 7th-century Pallava rock-cut temples and the Shore Temple standing directly against the Bay of Bengal.
Built over what is held to be the tomb of the apostle Thomas — one of only a handful of churches worldwide making that claim.
A superb collection of Chola bronzes, in Indo-Saracenic buildings from the 1850s.
