Thiba Palace

Just a km away from the city, the Thiba place is an architectural grandeur that was created for King Thiba of Myanmar (Burma) who was in exhile here. It is said to have been built by the British Government to have the king kept under house arrest in 1910.

The place has been beautifully crafted in Jambha stone and the roof is decked with Manglorean tiles. It has grand archways and spacious rooms which are all locked up. Today the place lies in complete neglect and not much looked after, except a couple of rooms which have taken a form of a museum displaying the various old artifcats used by the king in the olden days.

The mute walls narrate a story about a king who spent his last days of his life, in this place, thinking about the choices that he made for his life! Marrying his own sister or accepting his fate which leaded to a house arrest was part of that. Thiba was put in a house arrest in 1885 at Ratnagiri. Later in 1910, this palace was built for him.