page_title: Udayagiri Fort
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Udayagiri Fort / Fort in Tamil Nadu (Kanyakumari District) / Architecture
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context_page_description: There are two forts named Udayagiri Fort in South India.
context_section_description: The fort is built of massive granite blocks around an isolated hillock.
  The tombs of the Dutch Admiral Eustachius De Lannoy, (in whose honour the fort was once called Dillanai Kottai— De Lennoy's Fort), and of his wife and son can still be found inside a partly ruined chapel in the fort.
  De Lannoy's body was buried within the fort and a chapel was built at his burial site.  De Lannoy's tombstone lies within the walls of the ruined chapel. The inscriptions on his stone are both in Tamil and in Latin.  His wife and son were buried by his side.
  Recently, officials of the Department of Archaeology found a tunnel within the fort.
  Presently, the fort has been turned into a bio-diversity park by the Tamil Nadu forest department, with sites of historical importance, such as De Lannoy's tomb, remaining as protected archaeological sites under the Archaeological Department of India.
caption: De Lannoy's Tomb at the Udayagiri Fort on the Kanyakumari-Trivandrum highway in Kanyakumari District.
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