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Nellore
City in Andhra Pradesh, India

Nellore

Nellore, also spelt as Nelluru, is a city located on the banks of Penna River, in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Plan a trip to Nellore→From Tirupati

It serves as the headquarters of the district, as well as Nellore Urban mandal, Nellore Rural mandal and Nellore revenue division. It is the fourth most populous city in the state. It is at a distance of 279 kilometres (173 mi) from Vijayawada, 660 kilometres (410 mi) from Visakhapatnam, 455 kilometres (283 mi) from Hyderabad and about 170 km (110 mi) north of Chennai, Tamil Nadu and also about 380 km (240 mi) east-northeast of Bangalore, Karnataka. It is the administrative headquarters of Nellore District.

Get in

Getting to Nellore

Nearest airport Tirupati International Airport TIR IATA, Tirupati 110 km away Nearest major airport Chennai International Airport MAA IATA, Chennai 170 km away It takes 3 hr by train from Chennai and 10 hr from Hyderabad. Nellore railway station is on the Howrah-Chennai main line and Chennai-New Delhi rail route, 1 Nellore SCR (NLR). 2 Nellore South SCR (NLS).

See

Worth seeing

Places to visit include temples such as Jonnavada/Narasimhaswamy Temple, Ramalingeswara Temple in Nellore besides several other temples in towns across Nellore district. There is a "dargah" called the barah shaheed dargah which is very popular around this part of the world.

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    Sri Talpagiri Ranganadha Swamy Temple

    The most famous temple on the southern bank of the River Pennar, the Galigopuram of the temple is 29 m high and has seven gold Kalasams.

  2. 02
    Bara Shaheed Dargah

    Located on the banks of the Swarnala Cheruvu lake.

Do

Things to do

Don't miss watching movie in Nellore. Nellore has some of the best movie theaters from years.Nartaki, Siri multiplex, complex (krishna, kaveri, kalyani) now remodelled as S2 are some of the state-of-the-art theaters. It charges ₹80-100 for first class depending on the theatre/screen.

Eat

Where to eat

Nellore is famous for its spicy cuisine, so popular across Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, hot, spicy and replete with "pulusu" and "kodi kura". The Nellore Thali meals is a big hit across the state of Andhra Pradesh, and you see Nellore cuisine and Nelloreans as restauranteers in Hyderabad. Some hotels in Hyderabad serve the famous "Nellore Chaapala Pulusu".

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: YVSREDDY (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons.