Girish Park

Places of Interest

Girish Park metro station

Metro station

Photo: ArnabSaha, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Girish Park is an underground metro station on the north–south corridor of the Blue Line of Kolkata Metro which is close to Girish Park in Jorasanko, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Jorasanko Thakur Bari

Museum

Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.

Jorasanko Thakur Bari is a Haveli in Jorasanko, North Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is the ancestral home of the Tagore family. It is the birthplace of poet Rabindranath Tagore and the host of the Rabindra Bharati University campus.

Howrah Bridge

Photo: Pradip paswan, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Howrah Bridge is a balanced steel bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. Commissioned in 1943, the bridge was originally named the New Howrah Bridge, because it replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location linking both sides of Kolkata.

Places in the Area

North Kolkata

Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.

North Kolkata is the oldest area of Kolkata, a fascinating district dominated by narrow little lanes and hundreds of century-old buildings belonging to the Zamindars, other rich Bengalis who used to trade with the British.

Jorasanko

Suburb

Photo: P.K.Niyogi, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Jorasanko is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India. It is so called because of the two wooden or bamboo bridges that spanned a small stream at this point.

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