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Cantonment in the Chennai metropolitan area, Tamil Nadu, India

St. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram

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The place

St. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram is administered as a Category II cantonment by the St. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram Cantonment Board. In the 2011 Census, the cantonment was enumerated as town code 803350 and was divided into seven wards; a population of 43,795 was recorded for it.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around St. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram

10 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
    Guindy National Park

    Guindy National Park is a protected area, located in Chennai, India. Spread across 2.70 km2, it is one of the smallest National Parks in India and one of the few national parks situated inside a metropolitan area.

    3.1 km · national park in Chennai, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    ITC Grand Chola Hotel

    The ITC Grand Chola is a high-end luxury hotel in Chennai, India. It is located in Guindy, opposite SPIC building and along the same row of buildings as Ashok Leyland Towers.

    2.4 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kathipara Junction

    Kathiparai Junction is a major road junction in the Indian city of Chennai, capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Situated at the Alandur area, between the intersection of the Grand Southern Trunk Road, Inner Ring Road, Anna Salai and Mount-Poonamallee Road.

    1.2 km · bridge in India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Le Royal Meridien, Chennai

    Le Royal Méridien Chennai is a five-star luxury hotel in Chennai, India. Initially built as Madras Hilton at an investment of ₹ 1,650 million, the hotel was, however, opened as Le Royal Meridien Chennai in 2000.

    1.2 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Trident, Chennai

    Trident, Chennai is a five-star hotel located on GST Road at Meenambakkam, Chennai, India, directly across GST Road from the Chennai International Airport, about 20 minutes from the Chennai city centre. Managed by the Oberoi Group of Hotels, the hotel is built on 5 acres of land and is the first airport hotel of the city.

    1.9 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University

    The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University is a government medical university situated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

    2.2 km · state public university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Westin Chennai

    The Westin Chennai Velachery is a 10-storied five-star hotel in Chennai, India. Located on Velachery Main Road in Velachery, a southern suburb of Chennai, it is the sixth Westin hotel in India.

    1.9 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    College of Engineering, Guindy

    The College of Engineering, Guindy is a public engineering college situated in Chennai, India. It is Asia's oldest technical institution, founded in 1794.

    3.9 km · engineering college in Chennai, India · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Anjaneya Temple, Nanganallur

    The Anjaneya Temple at Nanganallur, Chennai is a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Hanuman. The principal idol of Hanuman is 32-feet tall and sculpted from a single piece of granite, which the second tallest Hanuman after Panchavatee near Puducherry.

    1.5 km · Hindu temple · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Butt Road Jumma Masjid

    The Butt Road Jumma Masjid is a Friday mosque located in Parangimalai on the outskirts of Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Situated 13 kilometres from Chennai city and 2 kilometres from Guindy on the Mount-Poonamallee Road, the mosque caters to the Muslim population of the suburb and the nearby cantonment.

    1.7 km · mosque in 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 St. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram

Airports
Chennai (MAA), 4 km · Tirupati (TIR), 101 km · Kempegowda Bengaluru (BLR), 271 km
Stations
Guindy railway station, 1.6 km · St. Thomas Mount railway station, 400 m · Meenambakkam metro station, 3 km · Nanganallur Road metro station, 1.1 km · Meenambakkam railway station, 3.4 km
  • Tirupati → St. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · ₹950–1,190
  • Bengaluru → St. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram
    282 km · quickest by road, 4h 57m · ₹2,070–2,590
  • Tiruchirappalli → St. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram
    293 km · quickest by road, 5h 11m · ₹2,020–2,530
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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 St. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe two terminals are near each other, and it is better to tell your exact destination to the taxi/auto-rickshaw driver.
  • Get inThe two terminals are near each other, and it is better to tell your exact destination to the taxi/auto-rickshaw driver.
  • Get aroundThe fares of Chennai auto-rickshaws have been an enormous political topic for many years and have contributed to the perception that the city's auto-rickshaw drivers never use meters and continually fleece passengers.
  • Get aroundHowever, despite the reputation, trips by auto rickshaw actually are quick, but rarely based on the metered price.
  • Get aroundAuto rickshaw meters are being outfitted with GPS and electronic digital receipt printers.

From Wikivoyage: Chennai, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    448 km
  2. 02
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    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    451 km
  3. 03
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  4. 04
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

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  5. 05
    HampiIN

    8 ways of moving, 18 sources

    480 km

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Next door to St. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram

St. Thomas Mount-cum-Pallavaram is 12 km from Ambattur, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.