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Manarcaud

Manarcad is a small town in Kottayam district of Kerala state, South India.

Manarcaud
Manarcaud · Rajeshr20500
The place

Manarcad is a small town in Kottayam district of Kerala state, South India. It is known for the Manarcad Perunnal, the annual feast at the St. Mary's Church, which is usually held from September 1–8. It is located about 9 km from the town of Kottayam and is on the way to the tourist town of Thekkady.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Manarcaud

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Vijayapuram

    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vijayapuram ) is a diocese located in the city of Kottayam in the ecclesiastical province of Verapoly in India.

    5.9 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Immaculate Heart of Mary Cathedral

    The Immaculate Heart of Mary Cathedral, also known as the Vimalagiri Cathedral or as Angathattu Palli located at Kottayam is the cathedral of the Diocese of Vijayapuram. Built in the Gothic architectural style, the church has a 172-foot tall tower which is one of the tallest church towers in Kerala.

    5.4 km · church building in Kottayam, Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Manarcad Church

    St. Mary's Syrian orthodox Cathedral, Manarcad, is cathedral located in Manarcad, about 9 km from the town of Kottayam in Kerala, India.

    1.4 km · church in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Catholicate Aramana Chapel

    The Catholicate Aramana Chapel in Kottayam, Kerala, India, is the personal chapel of the Catholicos, located at the Catholicate Aramana which is the headquarters of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and residence of the Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan. Many previous catholicoi including Paulose II are entombed there.

    6 km · Church in Kerala, India · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Manarcaud

Airports
Cochin (COK), 63 km · Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 131 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 165 km
Stations
Kottayam Railway Station, 6 km
  • Kochi → Manarcaud
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · ₹435–540
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Manarcaud
    129 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · ₹980–1,230
  • Coimbatore → Manarcaud
    163 km · quickest by road, 4h 37m · ₹1,540–1,930
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Manarcaud

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Manarcaud. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrequent ferries (run by the Kerala State Water Transport Corporation) from Alappuzha (Alleppey) run throughout the day.
  • Get aroundLocal taxis are also available, though they are considerably more expensive than autorickshaws.

From Wikivoyage: Kottayam, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    66 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    68 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    83 km
  4. 04
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    94 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    97 km

If you know how people move in Manarcaud – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Manarcaud

Manarcaud is 51 km from Kochi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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