Aluva, home to the summer residency of the Travancore royal family (the Alwaye Palace), is also known for the Sivarathri festival, which is celebrated annually on the sandbanks of Periyar.

[2] The Advaita Ashram in Aluva, which was founded in 1913 by Sree Narayana Guru, an Indian social reformer, adds to the cultural aspect of the region.

It is said that Shiva with the poison (Alam) in his mouth (Vaa) was then made into a deity that rested in a temple in Aluva.

[6] Mangalappuzha, a branch of Periyar that bifurcates at Aluva, was known to be a centre of trade and commerce in its area of South India.

Before Indian independence, Aluva was part of the Kingdom of Travancore and was the official summer residence of its royal family.

In the twentieth century, when there was a community of Jews in Kochi, some people had holiday homes in Aluva on the banks of the River Periyar.

[9] The current municipal council is ruled by the Indian National Congress Party, led by M. O. John, who was elected in December 2020.

[10] Kochi Metro Rail Limited is a project of the Kerala Government undertaken by DMRC aside from Aluva Flyover.

The metro system's third phase is supposed to extend the line further north from Aluva to the northern suburb Angamaly in order to connect to the Cochin International Airport.

[11] The daily passenger buses of Karnataka RTC and Tamil Nadu's SETC have routes to places such as Mysore, Mangalore, Bangalore, Trichy, Coimbatore, Salem, Palani, and Kodaikanal.

Privately operated inter-state buses[12] to Bangalore, Chennai, Mysore, Mumbai, and other cities have stops in points of Aluva.

[citation needed] Landmarks Aluva's culture has been influenced by the people native to it and by those attracted to it due to factors such as its proximity to the Periyar River.

Poets such as Changapuzha Krishna Pillai, G. Sankara Kurup and Balachandran Chullikkadu, and critic Kuttipuzha Krishnapilla, and novelist Subash Chandran are from Aluva and lived there.

Continuing with the tradition of published writing, the first online magazine and blogging platform was started in Aluva by puzha.com, which still exists on the Internet.[when?]

Aluva serves as a prominent centre for aspiring Chartered Accountants (CAs) and Company Secretaries (CS).

The temple's Shiva linga is not enshrined in a sreekovil; it rises out of the sand banks of the Periyar river.