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    Shakthan Thampuran Palace is located in Thrissur, Kerala and was reconstructed in 1795 by Ramavarma Thampuran in the Kerala-Dutch style. It has a two-story structure built around a central courtyard according to traditional Kerala architecture. The palace was converted into a museum in 2005 and features a snake shrine called the Serpent Grove which is believed to bring prosperity, as well as heritage and archaeological gardens displaying Kerala's indigenous plants and Stone Age artifacts.

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    Shakthan Thampuran Palace is located in Thrissur, Kerala and was reconstructed in 1795 by Ramavarma Thampuran in the Kerala-Dutch style. It has a two-story structure built around a central courtyard according to traditional Kerala architecture. The palace was converted into a museum in 2005 and features a snake shrine called the Serpent Grove which is believed to bring prosperity, as well as heritage and archaeological gardens displaying Kerala's indigenous plants and Stone Age artifacts.

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    Shakthan Thampuran Palace is located in Thrissur, Kerala and was reconstructed in 1795 by Ramavarma Thampuran in the Kerala-Dutch style. It has a two-story structure built around a central courtyard according to traditional Kerala architecture. The palace was converted into a museum in 2005 and features a snake shrine called the Serpent Grove which is believed to bring prosperity, as well as heritage and archaeological gardens displaying Kerala's indigenous plants and Stone Age artifacts.

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    SAKTHAN THAMPURAN PALACE


    Shakthan Thampuran Palace is situated in
    City of Thrissur in Kerala state, India.
    It is named as Vadakkekara Palace, was
    reconstructed in Kerala-Dutch style in
    1795 by Ramavarma Thampuran of the
    erstwhile Princely State of Cochin, well
    as Sakthan Thampuran (Greatest ruler of
    the Cochin dynasty) is preserved
    by Archeological Department.
    The palace was converted into a museum
    in 2005 by State.

    Its basic structure consists of a two-storey


    building, built in the Nalu-kettu (four blocks)
    style of Kerala architecture in which four blocks
    of residential quarters are built around a
    central courtyard. The rooms of the palace are
    spacious, floors are paved with Italian marble,
    walls are extra-thick, and roofs are very high.
    Such a construction style protects the residents
    from the ill effects of the weather to a very
    large extent.
    Serpent Grove or Sarpa Kavu is a snake shrine built for
    worship of serpent gods like Naga Raja (King of the
    snakes) and other snake deities, which is believed to
    bring prosperity to the royal family. Apart from the
    occasional prayers and ritualistic feeding of milk to the
    snakes to please the serpent gods, human interventions
    in these places are nil.
    The snake deities worshiped in serpent grove in the place
    is Naga raja and Nagayakshi. They are located in the
    palace garden and can be found under a Saptarna tree.

    Located on the southern side of the


    Shakthan Palace is the Heritage Garden, set
    up recently to exhibit and preserve some of
    the indigenous varieties
    of plants and treesof Kerala. The
    archaeological garden, situated in the
    northeastern part of the palace, has
    collections from the Stone Age recovered
    from the outskirts of Thrissur.

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