The
City's main road runs from the Victoria Jubilee town hall to the
Anantha Padmanabha Swamy Temple. Among the many inpressive buildings
that line this road are the Secretariat, Headquarters of
the State government, the University College and the Public Library.The
latter, founded in 1829, has a collection of more than
2,50,000 books and documents in Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil
and Sankrit. To the north beyond the Charming Connemara
market, are the JamiMasjid, St Joseph's Gathedral and the neo-Gothic
building of Christ Church.