Rock Memorial Fort
This is the important landmark of Trichy. It is an 83 metre (237 ft) high rock that is the only outcrop in the otherwise flat land of the city. This isperhaps the oldest rock in the world as old as the rocks of Greenland. The Himalayas are infant rocks compared to its age. There are fascinating temples with brilliant architecture in it. Thayumanavar temple, Ganesa temple at the top called Uchipillaiar Koil, Twi Pallava cave temples one on the way ti the Pillaiar Koil and th other in the northwest eand of he street aroud the hill. A flight of steps leads to the Thayumanava Swami temple the presinding deity of which is a projection of he rock itself. There are on the whole 437 steps cut into a tunnel through the rock. There is a 100 pillared wall and a vimanam covered with gold in the hayumanavaswami temple. The cave temple inside which is a beautiful carving of Gangadhara. The image must have been the first one fashioned by the Pallavas. From the Uchipillaiar Koil one can have a panoramic view of he ciy all the four sides.

He winding cauvery and he temles of Srirangam and Thiuvanaikaval can be spectacular and a fitting reward for the pains taking ascend. The Teppakulam built by Dishwanath Nayak is anither land-mark. This tank with the background of the fort is very imposing. Teppakulam is the float festival tank