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Kowdiar is one of Thiruvananthapuram’s most elegant neighbourhoods, home to the Kowdiar Palace of the former Travancore royal family, wide tree-lined avenues and some of the city’s nicest cafés and restaurants. It sits close to Vellayambalam and the Museum Junction, making it central and easy to reach. For Myra members, Kowdiar offers calm, upscale settings for a first date, with plenty of quiet places to talk. Introductions here often include people from Vellayambalam, Kuravankonam, Peroorkada, Sasthamangalam and Pattom, depending on your distance limit. A coffee in a Kowdiar café, followed by a walk towards the Napier Museum gardens or Kanakakunnu Palace, is one of the most pleasant first dates in the city. The neighbourhood is especially lovely in the evening, when the avenues are cool and quiet. Many members here value culture, books and conversation, which often appear as shared interests on introductions. During the Onam season, the area around Kanakakunnu hosts cultural festivals that make memorable later outings. Weekend mornings here are calm, when walkers head to the museum gardens and the cafés serve breakfast to a relaxed crowd. During the monsoon, the avenues turn a deep green, and sitting in a café watching the rain is one of the city’s small pleasures. Kowdiar Palace was built in 1915 for the royal family of Travancore, whose descendants still live in parts of it, and the area around it has kept a dignified, quiet character. The Kowdiar Square is a landmark where several roads meet, and the nearby Kanakakunnu Palace, built in the nineteenth century, now hosts the Onam week cultural programmes and the Nishagandhi dance festival. The museum and zoo complex was established in 1857, making it one of the oldest in India.