Pondicherry: French India
Would you expect to find a taste of France in… India? If you think it unlikely, then you probably haven’t heard of Pondicherry (Puducherry).
On the southeastern coast, about 150 miles south of Chennai, Pondicherry is, for an Indian city, tiny. Just about a million people live there, mostly in the types of charmless, three- and four-story concrete buildings erected all over the poorer parts of Asia. But near the Bay of Bengal, the cityscape changes drastically. Soon you see tile roofs and wooden shutters, balconies and colonnades, wide brick streets and pastel Catholic churches — the neighborhood once known as the Ville Blanche, or White Town, where the colonists lived.
Piqued your curiosity? Read the rest of Matt Gross’ travelogue, watch the slideshow and soaks up on French architecture, cuisine, sights and scenes in Pondicherry. For more on this destination, refer to the Puducherry Tourism Website.
Photo: Puducherry Tourism Website
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