| Kappad Beach |
| Pookot Lake |
| Pazhassiraja Museum |
| Backwaters |
| Thusharagiri Waterfalls |
| Beypore Beach |
| Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary |
| Peruvannamuzhi Dam |
| Thali Temple |
| Sultan Bathery |
| Other Tourist Places |
A
veritable treasure trove for historians and connoisseurs of art, the Pazhassiraja
Museum is located in Kozhikode - the land of spices which lured navigators
from time immemorial down to the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in 1498.
The Art Gallery adjacent to the museum displays the acclaimed paintings
of Kerala's cherished artists, Raja Ravi Varma (1848 - 1906) whose works
brought international repute to the State and his uncle Raja Raja Varma.
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The
museum is managed by the State Archaeology Department and has on display
mural paintings, antique bronzes, ancient coins, models of temples, umbrella
stones, dolmenoid cists (quadrangular burial chambers with capstones),
and similar megalithic monuments. The art gallery has the oil paintings
and other works of Raja Ravi Varma. For more information on Ravi Varma's
works, refer 'The prince among painters and a painter among princes' . |
The
museum and the art gallery are named after the great Pazhassiraja Kerala
Varma of the Padinjare Kovilakom of the Kottayam royal family. The famous
'Pazhassi Revolt' (against the British East India Company during the second
half of the 1700s) was led by Pazhassiraja. Nicknamed the Lion of Kerala,
Pazhassiraja is also credited with introducing guerilla warfare in the
hills of Wayanad to resist the increasingly intolerable British colonialism.
This great freedom fighter was shot dead in an encounter on 30 November
1805.