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Each year over 3 million women cook a ritual offering together on the streets around this temple, a gathering recognised by Guinness.
Once the stage for lavish royal banquets, now its grounds host open-air concerts and dance festivals.
122 carved wooden horses line its eaves. A poet-king, Swathi Thirunal, built it.
Kerala, Mughal, Chinese and Italian styles meet in a building with no air conditioning that stays naturally cool.
In 2011, a court-ordered inventory of its underground vaults revealed treasure estimated at over one trillion rupees.
Raja Ravi Varma's original oil paintings hang here, the same artist whose prints shaped how millions picture the gods.