Puducherry

Puducherry, formerly Pondicherry, is a city in the Union Territory of Puducherry in India. This city is the capital of the UT. It is also the headquarters of the district of the same name. “Puducherry” is the French interpretation of the original name “Puducheri” meaning “new settlement”.

It is also referred by names such as 'Quintessence of French Culture', 'India's Little France' and 'The French Riviera of the East'. Still it has the French flavor in it as one can see by the grand colonial mansions, beautiful boulevards, and placid promenades, spellings on sign boards and buildings, names of roads and public places.

The uniqueness of Pondicherry town invariably lies in skillful town planning and Franco Tamil architecture. The town is built on the model of "bastide", a fortified French coastal town of the late 18th Century.

History

By 18th century this tiny fishing village had turned into a grand port city. The French first set foot here in 1670 and left a part of them when their undisturbed rule finished in 1954.

Its history goes back to the Roman times. But the city was founded and built by French. The Portuguese have been here. So have the Dutch, The Danes, The English And the French.

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