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The ancient culture tamilov finds especially bright display in temple architecture. Hardly in other area of the country you will see such considerable quantity of temples, from tiny roadside to majestic, rising the conic towers (gopuramami) on tens metres. A place of pilgrimage for all induistov India became temples Kanchipurama, Madurai, Rameshvarama, CHidambarama, Tandzhavura and many other things places.

Only in Kanchipurame, that means ' a city of thousand temples ', considered as one of seven sacred for induistov cities of India literally, there are 124 temples. Some are constructed of them in VI-VII centuries. It is not less well-known for temples Tandzhavur, the former capital of empire Chola which prospered in X-XII centuries. Here 74 temples. Recently in a courtyard of most majestic of them - temple Brahadishvara constructed in X century, the frescos which are not conceding on art value to the well-known frescos of cave temple Adzhanty have been found.

Temples of Tamil Nadu are considered classical in induistskoj to architecture. Their conic towers - gopuramy from lateral aspect, and also internal premises are entirely decorated by the sculpture cut from a stone. Sculptural compositions are devoted various mythological plots. With grandness of a construction amazes temple Ramanatasvami in Rameshvarame which after Varanasi (Benares) is considered the second for value induistskim the centre of India. Length of a temple-305 of metres and width-198 of metres. A corridor surrounding it it was stretched on 1220 metres. Hundreds columns on either side of a corridor - the sample of surprising beauty of a carving on a stone. Each column tells about any mythological episode. Not to a lesser degree grasps imagination the well-known temple Mi-nakshi in Madurai, with its nine majestic gopuramami which many consider as the sample dravidijskoj architecture and sculptures. The hall of thousand the columns, built in XVI century, has not equal. It consider as miracle of engineering art: From any place in a hall before you the symmetric panorama opens. Each column is the monumental sculpture cut from a stone monolith which capital is the stylised figure of a lion.