Stay at Budget Hotels in Pondicherry to Experience the French Heritage

[Akriti Yadav]

Whether you are staying at the budget hotels in Pondicherry or any other place, you cannot escape the evidence of French heritage that has left an indelible stamp on this landscape. Lush gardens, elegant walkways, and European mansions here are for all to see. Aptly named the Indian Riviera or Cote d’Azur, the essentially French refinement and style of this city separates it from all the other boom towns of the country.
 
A great place to find the best Pondicherry hotel deals would be near the seafront that gives you the much-needed isolation and escape from the din and bustle, the bane of citified existence. Here you will come across tree-lined boulevards with most people preferring bicycles to other modes of transport.  Strolling here, it is quite easy to believe that you may be visiting a country town in France instead of some destination in South India.

Out of the four main pockets of French territory in India after the English dominion, this one was the central pocket. Even the British didn’t think much to interfere in the Gallic way of life prevalent in the city right up to 1963 when it finally gained independence. The streets laid out in grid formal patterns are a part of this interesting heritage in the White Town region. Native Tamils used to live near the canals and in other places where the organic townships developed interspersed with colonial mansions of wealthy traders.

Puducherry became the official name of Pondicherry in 2006, and still the legacy remains. Today it is a boom town with significant increase in the overall population. Still due to the forceful preservation efforts you can still see dozens of lovely streets and houses that hark back to an era gone by despite the same number of crumbling shells. Such edifices are there for viewing in both the original Tamilian quarters and the colonial parts of the town. So get the desired Pondicherry hotel deals and make it a point to visit this beautiful place.

As you walk by the streets of erstwhile French quarters, you will experience tranquility filling you from all sides. Angelic voices drift with the sea breezes seemingly coming from the Notre-Dame-des-Anges Cathedral. The interiors contain tangerine bright pillars with walls in duck-egg blue where European loftiness beautifully meets Tamilian gaiety to create a unique experience difficult to copy anywhere else.

Highlight of your stay at budget hotels in Pondicherry is of course a visit to Sri Aurobindo Ashram. This ashram was constructed in 1926 by the most enigmatic and the eponymous of the followers of this saint – the Mother. Light grey color of this building is present across the city and you will come across this at the restaurants, schools, libraries, and the shops here. So come; Stay at Budget Hotels in Pondicherry to Experience the French Heritage.

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