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Places of interest @calicut(Kozhikode)

Kozhikode is an important trading centre for timber and tiles, and is famous for `Calicut halwa' ...

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City Beach

Just 15 minutes from the city centre is a place called Dolphin's Point, where one can see dolphins playing in the sea of an early morning. The long tree-lined beach, about 2 km away, is popular with the local people because of the Lions Club Park, the lighthouse, and two piers - and of course, the opportunity to soak in the evening breeze.

Beach Road and Light House


SM Street
Cities Commercial Nerve Center...Always bustling with Activities.. Literally u will get everything and anything there..Famous for kozhikkodan halwas..

Kappad Beach

Its silvery sands and breathtaking scenery allures visitors both from india and abroad..it is a beach resort.

Museum

Pazhassi Raja Museum
Located at East Hill, the Pazhassiraja Museum, run by the State Archaelogical Department, displays ancient murals, antique bronzes and old coins, as well as models of temples, megalithic monuments like dolminoid cysts and umbrella stones. Timings are 10 am to 5 pm. (Closed on Mondays)

Art Gallery
Situated next to the Pazhassiraja Museum, the Art Gallery contains paintings of Raja Ravi Varma and Raja Raja Varma. The Krishna Menon Museum has a section in honour of the great Indian leader V.K. Krishna Menon, whose personal belongings and souvenirs gifted by world leaders are exhibited here. Timings are 10 am to 5 pm. (Closed on Mondays and Wednesday forenoons)

Heart of calicut - mananchira square

Manan Chira
Mananchira (/maananchiRa/) is the heart of the city and sites important institutions like the Town Hall and the Public Library. One of Kozhikode's oldest institutions, the Commonwealth Trust's office is located here. The large pond and park are well-known landmarks. Mananchira Square has been beautified and has a musical fountain too.

Mananchira Square

Kallai - Timber Trade

Kallai
Six km away is Kallai (, once the bustling nerve-centre of Kozhikode's timber trade, said to have been the largest such trading centre in Asia. Today, though some business does take place, hard times have fallen on the timber trade and Kallai is just a shadow of its busy past.

Calicut Aquarium

Beach Side Aquarium is a home to lots of variety of rare species of fishes..

Aquarium

Calicut Planaterium

Regional Science center and Planeterium is situated at Jawahar Nagal Colony off Mavoor Rd..

Calicut Planaterium

Ship Building Yard

Uru's
Beypore , 11 km from Kozhikode, is a small coastal town famous for centuries as a ship-building centre and still is known today for its country crafts called `uru' built by traditional shipbuilders known as `khalasis'. Beypore is still a favoured destination for Arabs shopping for large boats.

Korapuzha
Korapuzha river has its own jalotsavam..


Kalari payattu - Martial Art
A commercial centre also famous for the ancient Kerala style of martial arts, `kalaripayattu' (/kaLaripayatt~/), is also the birthplace of Tacholi Othenan, whose heroic deeds have been immortalised in the ballads of North Malabar (the `/vadakkanpAttukaL/' or `northern songs').

Hill Stations
Wyanad is a beautifull hill resort around 50 kms from calicut ..The road from Kozhikode to Sultan Battery, though full of steep climbs and hairpin bends, offers a breathtakingly scenic drive. From Sultan Battery, it is only six hours to Bangalore.

Calicut International Airport
Kozhikode has an airport, at Karipur. Operates Both domestic and international flights

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