Downtown Kollam

Located entirely within the former municipality of old Quilon, it is approximately bounded by Chinnakada to the east, Thangassery to the West, Cutchery to the north, and Mundakkal to the South.

[2] He pointed out that Old Kollam was the only town on the west coast of India with multi-story buildings, some of which still stand today.

Polo left a detailed account of Kollam in his writings, extracts of which are reproduced in the Travancore State Manual.

Kollam's main road runs through the center of the downtown business district of Old Quilon.

[5][6] The area behind Kollam District hospital is known as Pharma city because of its large number of pharmaceutical and surgical distributors.