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Thalassery

Thalassery is a city and municipality on the Malabar Coast in Kannur district in the state of Kerala, India, bordered by the districts of Mahe and Kozhikode.

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The place

Thalassery is a city and municipality on the Malabar Coast in Kannur district in the state of Kerala, India, bordered by the districts of Mahe and Kozhikode. Thalassery municipality has a population of just under 100,000 as of 2011 census. Thalassery Heritage City has an area of 23.98 square kilometres (9.26 sq mi). Thalassery has an altitude ranging from 2.5 to 30 metres above mean sea-level. It is located 25 km from Vadakara, 15 km from Mahé and 22 km from Kannur.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Thalassery

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
    Muzhappilangad Beach

    Muzhappilangad Beach is a drive-in beach in Tellichery Kannur district of Kerala, on the Malabar Coast of India. It is 4 kilometers in length.

    6.9 km · Beach in Kannur district, Keralam, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Odathil Palli

    The Odathil Mosque, also known as the Odathil Palli, is a mosque, located in the city of Thalassery, in the state of Kerala, India. The mosque was built in c. 1806..

    100 m · mosque in India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Government Brennen College

    Brennen College is an educational institution in Kerala, affiliated to the Kannur University. It is located in Dharmadam, Thalassery of Kerala state, India.

    4 km · Educational institute in Kerala · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sree Ramaswami Temple

    Thiruvangad Sree Ramaswami Temple is a temple located in the eastern part of Thalassery. The temple is generally known as the Brass Pagoda from the copper sheeting of its roof.

    1.6 km · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, Thalassery

    Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Temple is a Hindu temple associated with Gowda Saraswatha Brahmins in and around Thalassery. The temple is located in Thalassery town, in the Kannur district of Kerala.

    500 m · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kadachira Sri Thrikkapalam Siva Temple

    Kadachira Sri Thrikkapalam Siva Temple, an ancient Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva is situated on the banks of the Anjarakandi River at Peralassery of Kannur District in Kerala state in India. The temple is the abode of Dakshinamurthy.

    9.1 km · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Mahe lighthouse

    Mahe Lighthouse is a lighthouse situated on the south side of the entrance of Mayyazhi river in Mahe, Puducherry. It was established in the year 1893.

    6.9 km · Lighthouse in Puducherry · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Sree Andalurkavu

    Andalurkavu is a very ancient, famous and prominent Thiyyar Community Urayima temple in Andalur in Dharmadam village of Kannur district, Kerala, India. This ancient temple is in the name of Lord Rama and the main festival is celebrated in mid-February: the first week of the month "Kumbam" of the Malayalam calendar.

    5.2 km · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Overbury's Folly

    Overbury's Folly is a seaside park with a watch tower. It is located less than a kilometer from Thalassery, a commercial town on the Malabar Coast in the Kannur district, Kerala, India.

    500 m · Seaside park in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Thalassery Stadium

    Thalassery Stadium is located near the Thalassery Civil Station, Kerala state, South India. Thalassery Stadium hosts the Ranji Trophy cricket matches every year.

    400 m · cricket ground 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Dharmadam Island

    Dharmadam,Thalassery (4 km from city centre).

  2. 02
    Gundert Bungalow

    Herman Gundert, a German missionary and great scholar, author of first Malayalam dictionary.

  3. 03
    Gundert Memorial Church
  4. 04
    Odathil Mosque

    The name literally translates into Garden Mosque as it was built on a sugarcane plantation purchased from the Dutch East India Company.

  5. 05
    Overbury's Folly

    Multi-level landscaped recreational park which commands sweeping views of Arabian Sea.

  6. 06
    Thalassery Pier

    An old 500 feet long pier extending out into the Arabian Sea.

From Wikivoyage: Thalassery, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Thalassery Municipal Stadium

From Wikivoyage: Thalassery, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Bharath Coffee House, PIlakkool (1 km). Green Leaf Restaurant, Gundert Road,. Indian Coffee House, Behind bus station,. Mughal Restaurant, PeIlakkool (1 km). Olive Garden Restaurant, Narangapuram,. Paris Restaurant, Logans Road,. Famous for biriyani, samoosa and banana filling. Peacock Restaurant, Pallishery (1 km). Prakrithi Restaurant, Palissery (2 km). Raraavis Restaurant, Narangapuram,. Famous for fish biriyani.

From Wikivoyage: Thalassery, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Thalassery

Airports
Kannur (CNN), 20 km · Calicut (CCJ), 85 km · Mangaluru (IXE), 149 km
Stations
Thalassery railway station, 600 m · Edakkad railway station, 8 km · Dharmadam railway station, 4.3 km · Jaganath Temple Gate railway station, 2.4 km · Mahe railway station, 8.4 km
  • Calicut → Thalassery
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · ₹460–580
  • Mangaluru → Thalassery
    147 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · ₹1,060–1,320
  • Coimbatore → Thalassery
    181 km · quickest by road, 5h 4m · ₹1,590–1,980
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Not yet researched

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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 Thalassery. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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  2. 02
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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Around it

Next door to Thalassery

  • Mahétown in Puducherry, India7.4 km
  • Mahé districtdistrict of Puducherry, India7.3 km
  • Dharmadomvillage in Kannur District, Kerala, India5.3 km
  • Muzhappilangadvillage in Kannur District, Kerala, India7.1 km
  • Chocklivillage in Kannur District, Kerala, India7.6 km
  • Mavilayivillage in Kannur district, Kerala, India9.7 km