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BBD Bagh (Dalhousie)
The Imperial Quarter
Facades of the British Empire: the Writers' Building, the domed GPO, and India's last trams rattling between them.
Dalhousie Square is an imperial capital in miniature: the red-brick Writers' Building, the GPO dome, banks a century older than independence. The quarter opens onto the Hooghly: ferry ghats, Millennium Park and the city's steel signature, Howrah Bridge, with its unstoppable human current. A sunset ferry across the river is an essential Calcutta ritual.
Who it suits
the imperial core Howrah Bridge Hooghly ferries
Staying here
A business quarter: stay near Park Street and walk here in the morning.
In the evening
Empties after sunset; the bridge lights up, best seen from a ferry.
Getting there
Ⓜ Esplanade · Howrah (Green, under the river)
What to see
Shopping
Where to stay
Other areas of Kolkata
In the app: the city's areas on the map, the places inside and a route.
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