Kolkata

Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River 80 km west of the border with Bangladesh. It's the primary business, marketable, and fiscal mecca of Eastern India and the main harborage of communication for North- East India.

Some popular tourist places in Kolkata include:

The Victoria Memorial: It is a large marble building on the Maidan in Central Kolkata, built between 1906 and 1921. It is dedicated to the memory of Queen Victoria, Empress of India from 1876 to 1901.

The Howrah Bridge: It is a balanced stake ground over the Hooghly River in West Bengal. Commissioned in 1943, the ground was firstly named the New Howrah Bridge, because it replaced a pontoon ground at the same position linking the metropolises of Howrah and Kolkata.

The Indian Museum : The Indian Museum in Central Kolkata, West Bengal, India, also appertained to as the Imperial Museum of Calcutta in social- period textbooks, is the ninth oldest gallery in the world, the oldest and largest gallery in India as well as in Asia.

St. Paul's Cathedral: A beautiful Gothic-style church that is one of the oldest in Kolkata.

Kalighat Kali Temple : It is a Hindu tabernacle in Kalighat, Kolkata, West Bengal, India devoted to the Hindu goddess Kali. It's one of the Shakti Peethas. Kalighat was a Ghat sacred to Kali on the old course of the Hooghly swash in the megacity of Kolkata.

Park Street : It is a notorious turnpike in town Calcutta, India. In Bengali, it's frequently appertained as Shaheb- er Para or the “ neighbourhood of Englishmen ”. The road runs through what was a deer demesne of Sir Elijah Impey, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Calcutta from 1773 to 1789, hence the before name.

Fort William: It is a stronghold in Hastings, Calcutta. It was erected during the early times of the Bengal Presidency of British India. It sits on the eastern banks of the Hooghly River, the major distributary of the River Ganges. One of Kolkata's most continuing Raj- period edifices, it extends over an area of70.9 hectares.

Belur Math: It is the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, innovated by Swami Vivekananda, the principal convert of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. It's located on the west bank of Hooghly River, Belur, West Bengal, India. The tabernacle is the heart of the Ramakrishna movement.

Prinsep Ghat : It is a ghat erected in 1841 during the British Raj, along the Kolkata bank of the Hooghly River in India. The Palladian veranda in the memory of the prestigious Anglo- Indian scholar and antiquary James Prinsep was designed byW. Fitzgerald and constructed in 1843.

Botanical Garden : The Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, more known as the Botanical Garden, is a sprawling theater gauging a total area of 273 acres that's located in Shibpur, Howrah, near Kolkata. The auditoriums were established in the time 1787 and were generally known as the Company Garden in that time. It's presently under the Botanical Survey of India( BSI) of Ministry of Environment and timbers, Government of India. moment, the vibrant theater is considered to be one of the most stunning landscaped auditoriums in the entire country with undulating land geomorphology and astonishing artificial lakes. It's a pure delight for nature suckers to visit this area and to spend some quiet and peaceful time in the stage of nature at the auditoriums . The Botanical Garden boasts of being home to 12000 living imperishable shops as well as thousands of dried out shops which have been collected from each across the globe. Thousands of astounding orchids and multicoloured flowers can also be set up in the theater . The major magnet of the theater , still, is the vast and wide Banyan tree, which is popularly known as the Great Banyan Tree. This enormous tree is reputed for forming the alternate most expansive cover in the entire world. The Botanical auditoriums were firstly innovated in 1786 by Colonel Kyd, and are the oldest botanical theater that can be set up in the whole country. In fact, the tea that now grows in Assam and Darjeeling was first developed in these auditoriums .