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Places on the Ayutthaya map

All 33 historic sites are pinned at their real coordinates. Each page covers the site’s history, its story across 5 eras and visiting information.

Linked to King Naresuan

PalaceChandra Kasem Palace★The palace built as King Naresuan's residence, and his command post for defending the capitalPalaceAncient Royal Palace★The centre of power in Ayutthaya, where Naresuan came to the throneTempleWat Na Phra Men★Where the truce of the War of the White Elephant was negotiated, the start of Naresuan's journey to HanthawaddyTempleWat Phu Khao Thong★The chedi King Bayinnaung built after the first fall of Ayutthaya, in the middle of a former battlefieldTempleSuriyothai Chedi★A memorial to Queen Suriyothai, King Naresuan's grandmotherTempleWat Worachettharam★The temple believed to have been built where King Naresuan was crematedTempleWat Yai Chai Mongkhon★King U Thong's Wat Pa Kaeo, with the Chai Mongkhon chedi linked to the elephant duelForeign settlementBaan Hollanda★Site of the Dutch trading post, a relationship that began when VOC merchants were received by NaresuanForeign settlementPortuguese Settlement★Ayutthaya's first European community, home of musketeers who served Siam from before Naresuan's timeTempleWat Thammikarat★A temple older than Ayutthaya itself, with a chedi ringed by 52 lions and a role in the chronicles' story of Phra Si Sin's revolt.TempleWat Sop Sawan★A temple born of Queen Suriyothai's funeral, and one of the places where King Naresuan may have been cremated.TempleWat Worachet (outside the island)★A great prang in the middle of Thung Prachet, and one of the temples that may have been King Naresuan's cremation siteTempleWat Suwan Dararam★The temple of the Chakri dynasty's ancestors, whose wihan walls are painted with the life of King Naresuan and the elephant duelTempleWat Mae Nang Pluem★A temple north of the city island with a lion-ringed chedi and the legend of an old woman who gave King Naresuan shelterTempleWat Phutthaisawan★A riverside prang on the site of the Wiang Lek residence; one old text says King Naresuan built itTempleWat Maheyong★A chedi ringed by some 80 elephants, and the site of King Bayinnaung's royal camp when Ayutthaya first fell in 1569Foreign settlementJapanese Village★Site of the Japanese community on the Chao Phraya: traders and volunteer soldiers who began to appear in the late years of Naresuan's eraFortPhet Fortress★A corner fort of the capital where the rivers meet, guarding the foreign-ship landing; one of only two surviving forts of Ayutthaya

On the city island

TempleWat Phra Si SanphetThe temple within the palace grounds, whose three chedis are Ayutthaya's iconic imageTempleWat MahathatThe royal temple at the heart of the capital, home of the famous Buddha head in the tree rootsTempleWat RatchaburanaThe temple built where two royal brothers were cremated, with a crypt of gold treasures found in 1957TempleWat LokayasutharamThe largest open-air reclining Buddha on the city island, lying just behind the Ancient Royal Palace.TempleWat Phra RamThe temple built on King U Thong's cremation site, its main prang rising beside Bueng Phra Ram in the middle of the city island.TempleWihan Phra Mongkhon BophitA seated Buddha about 9.5 metres across the lap that survived lightning and the fires of war, and is still worshipped today.TempleWat SenasanaramAyutthaya's first Thammayut temple, revived by King Rama IV from the ruined Wat Suea behind Chandra Kasem Palace

Off the city island

TempleWat ChaiwatthanaramKing Prasat Thong's riverside temple on the Chao Phraya, built 25 years after Naresuan's deathTempleWat KasattrathiratA riverside temple on the west bank facing the city island, with a stout main prang and an old ubosot still in useTempleWat Phanan ChoengA temple older than Ayutthaya itself, home of the great Luang Pho To, revered by Thai and Chinese worshippers alikeTempleWat Kudi DaoAn abandoned temple in the eastern fields, restored by King Borommakot, who was also ordained here while he was still the Front Palace princeTempleWat AyothayaA temple that legend ties to the city of Ayothaya before Ayutthaya, with a large cracked chedi in a still-active templeTempleWat Tha Ka RongA riverside temple on the Chao Phraya where the Burmese set up a camp and positioned cannon to besiege the capital during the fall of Ayutthaya in 1767.TempleWat Samana KotA temple off the island to the east with an unusual five-spired chedi, said to be the temple of the family of Kosa Lek and Kosa PanTempleWat Choeng ThaThe 'waiting at the landing' temple opposite the Royal Palace, with a legend of a rich man's runaway daughter and the story that King Taksin once studied here