The residential suburb, Virugambakkam is situated in the Western part of Chennai famous for markets, schools and residences of film artists. This place covers 2.0 sq. ft with coordinates of 13.049557°N, 80.184928° E. Virugambakkam has total 61108 people where 31833 are male and 29275 are female. You can experience hot and humid weather all throughout the year but the monsoon time is pleasant. Tamil and English are widely spoken here.
Infrastructure and Details
Being the most important locality of Chennai, Virugambakkam is a village covered by mango orchards, paddy field, casuarina trees etc. It is surrounded by several neighbourhood localities like Saligramam (1.5km), Koyambedu (2.6km), Alwarthirunagar (2.1km) along with Tamil Nadu (298.4km).
This residential area is well-connected with the heart of Chennai through roads like Arcot Road which also link other suburban areas with this village. There is also a bus route names Poonawalla-Vadapalani- Broadway and the nearby bus terminuses are Saligrammam, Chennai Moffusil Terminus and Vadapalani. All of them are at 4 km away and the CMBT Metro Rail station in 3 km away from the Village itself.
Major educational institutions like schools and colleges are located in this place. For example, St. John Matriculation Higher Secondary School (1.2km), Vani Vidyalaya School (1.7km) and among colleges there are Avichi College of Arts and Science (1.2km), Meenakshi Dental Clinic (4.1km), Meenakshi Engineering college (1.6km) etc.
Virugambakkam is well-known for its movie studios and schools too. Apart from being the home-place of several film actors there are some important temples like Raghavendra Temple (2.2km), Shiva Vishnu Temple (900m), Hari Hara Temple (1.2km) etc.
Chandra Metro Mall, INOX, Food Bazaar, E-Zone are some of the shopping centers where people meet their shopping needs. And for medical emergency people go to Hera Hospital (300m), SBS hospital (850m) and Standard Hospital (300m) around the area. Some of the key IT parks in this place are Olympia Technology Park, DLF IT park, Commerzone, Kosmo One etc.
Property in Virugambakkam
From Private apartments to luxurious villas, Virugambakkam has everything in it. You can also find apartments, studio apartments, independent houses and residential plots with 1-3 BHK configurations. Many builders like Deccan Construction Company, Vinodh Foundation, Revathy Constructions have launched housing projects and schemes for the people around here.
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