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Kolkata · Nature
The Maidan & Victoria
Marble & Cricket
The white marble Victoria Memorial, horse carriages, and a hundred simultaneous cricket matches on one great lawn.
"Calcutta's lungs": a vast green where hundreds of cricket games start each morning, police horses graze and India's last tram still chimes past. On its southern edge shines the marble Victoria Memorial with its Raj museum. In between: a century of city history and the town's best sunsets.
Who it suits
Victoria Memorial cricket on the grass trams
Staying here
No stays on the green itself; hotels face it from the eastern rim.
In the evening
The Memorial glows into the night; the green itself is a daytime story.
Getting there
Ⓜ Maidan · Park Street (Blue)
What to see
Shaheed MinarThe Maidan's tallest exclamation, borrowed from Egypt, Syria and Turkey at onceDetails →
The MaidanThe city's shared back garden: football, carriages and the last heritage tram
Victoria MemorialA British palaceDetails →
St. Paul's CathedralA Gothic Revival masterpiece
Birla PlanetariumDetails →
Other areas of Kolkata
Areas on the map
In the app: the city's areas on the map, the places inside and a route.
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