Anamika - The Villa Home, Allappuzha, Kerala

Anamika – the Villa Home was built in 1983. It is located at the most idyllic location in the town of Allappuzha , known as the Venice if the East. The Alappuzha town is now the gateway to the magical backwaters of Kerala. This heritage home site in a pretty, quite and calm surroundings in the heart of the busy town at the V.C.S.B. road which was once the boundary if the Chempakassery Nattu Rajas.

The eastward facing building is a curious mixture of quaint local styles added to the Dutch architecture. The steeply pitched tile roof rests on rock columns with order done in tuscan style of necking of a curious Dutch fashion. The verandahs seen at the eastern and western flanks are decorated with rod iron cast grills. The lush green lawns flow effortlessly around the villa.

The heavily timbered ceilings are supported with massive steel guarders, which is in fact in single piece of metal running the fall length of the ceiling. The thick wood worked windows and doors are decorated with gothic archs fitted with colour glass.

The Varandha at the rear of the house is shaded by a huge mango tree of thick foliage. The broad hedges across the verandha is the best place to sit and relax sipping acup of coffee or tea. There are three double bedrooms neatly furnished with furniture conveniently set for the maximum comforts. There is also a suite room, which is more spacious than the double rooms.

Step in and feel the warmth of an old Syrian Christian ‘Tharavadu'- the ancestral family home of the pioneer christians of South India .