The Thiruvalluvar Statue, or Valluvar Statue, is a 40.6-metre-tall stone sculpture of Tamil poet and philosopher Valluvar, known as Thiruvalluvar, the author of the Thirukkural, an ancient Tamil work
Valluvar Kottam
…Tamil Nadu M. Karunanidhi during the 1970s. It was designed by South Indian traditional architect V. Ganapati Sthapati, who is also the architect of the Thiruvalluvar Statue at Kanyakumari. It was inaugurated in April 1976 by the then President of India Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. The monument consists of a decorative arch, an…
Thiruvalluvar Statue in Kanyakumari
Poet Thiruvalluvar
Thiruvalluvar statue illuminated at night
Thiruvalluvar Statue and the adjacent Vivekananda Rock Memorial at sunrise