Nature has blessed Mangalore with many a splendour: sun kissed, virgin beaches; sweet water serpentine rivers slithering through palm groves and mangroves forests of the Western Ghats, and then idling through the lush green paddy fields to in the Arabian Sea.
The city is known for the tile factories, cashew kernels, temples and churches then, is now become the cynosure of the State with the advent of multinational companies.
Above all the city is known for its very hospitable, intelligent and peace loving people with hundreds of educational institutions offering professional courses to locals as well as outsiders.
Though Mangalore has tried to live upto its image of a fast-growing city, it has never been able to shake off its character of being an ’’overgrown village’’. The city was named after the deity - Mangala Devi in whose honour a Temple was constructed just on the outskirts of what is the present day urban limits and where worship is carried on, even till today. Mangalore also known as Kodial from Kudla.
Mangalore is a city of coconut palms, which enhances its beauty.