Alluri Sitarama Raju Park

Alluri Sitarama Raju Park is located about 28 km west of narsipatnam and the park is lies around 2 km from Krishna Devi Peta Village. The park is a resting place of the great indian freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju. His tomb is located in this park.
Alluri Sitaramaraju (1897-1924; also called Alluri Ramachandra Raju) was The freedom fighter from Vizag. He was the leader of the ill-fated Rampa Rebellion that was fought against the British from 1922 to 1923. Popularly referred to as Raju, he lives on in the hearts of the Telugu people as the Manyam Veerudu (hero of the jungles).
Raju was born on July 4, 1897 in Pandrangi village in the Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh to a Telugu Kshatriya family. His mother was from Visakhapatnam and his father was a native of Mogallu, near Bhimavaram, and was an official photographer in the central jail at Rajahmundry. The young Raju lived mainly in Mogallu and was educated in Rajamundry at the Vullithota Bangarayya school, as well as in Kakinada, Tuni and Ramachandrapuram in the East Godavari district.
