Temple compounds
The Ekambareswarar and Varadharaja Perumal temples occupy large walled enclosures that show up as clear rectangles on the map, with streets bending around their corners and leading straight to their gateways.
Minimalist map poster · India
Kanchipuram Map Poster
12.8352° N / 79.7001° E
A compact temple town where street blocks gather around great shrine compounds, with the Vegavathi and Palar rivers close by.
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Kanchipuram at home
The map
About this Kanchipuram map poster
From above, Kanchipuram reads as a town organised by its temples. Large rectangular compounds, many of them walled and entered through tall gopurams, sit like anchors in the street pattern, and the lanes around them run in straight lines toward their gates. The Vegavathi, a small river, threads through the town, while the wider sandy bed of the Palar passes to the south.
Kanchipuram served as the capital of the Pallava dynasty, and some of South India's earliest structural stone temples stand here, including the Kailasanathar temple from around the eighth century. It is counted among the seven sacred cities of Hindu pilgrimage, and the town is often described in two parts, Shiva Kanchi and Vishnu Kanchi, after the deities of its main shrines.
The town is equally known for its silk. Kanchipuram saris, woven on handlooms in homes and workshops across the older neighbourhoods, carry the town's name across India. A Kanchipuram map poster keeps the geometry that underlies all of this: temple tanks as small solid squares, compounds as crisp outlines, and the web of residential streets that connects them.
- Population
- 222,000
- Coordinates
- 12.8352° N / 79.7001° E
- Elevation
- 85 m
- Time zone
- Kolkata
- Region
- Kanchipuram, India
Sacred tanks
Stepped temple tanks appear as neat geometric blocks of water scattered through the town, small but precise shapes that punctuate the dense residential streets around them.
The Palar riverbed
South of the centre the broad, often dry bed of the Palar runs east toward the Bay of Bengal, a wide band that frames the town's lower edge.
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Why Kanchipuram
A map that means something
For people with family roots in Tamil Nadu, or anyone who has walked its temple streets, this map carries a quiet sense of return. The ordered pattern of compounds and tanks also works simply as graphic design, calm enough for a study or a hallway.
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| Print size | Resolution | Files |
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| 30 × 40 cm (11.8 × 15.7″) | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3, 11.7 × 16.5″) | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2, 16.5 × 23.4″) | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm (18 × 24″) | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm (19.7 × 27.6″) | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm (24 × 36″) | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
For comparison, the free preview is 900 px wide, watermarked and meant for screens. The HD files have up to 8× the resolution in each direction and print cleanly at full poster size.
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