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Connaught Place

New Delhi, Delhi, India

4.3 (0)

Overview

The Georgian colonnaded rings of the capital's commercial heart — Central Park concerts, the giant tricolour, showrooms, bars and the Palika underground bazaar.

Why visit: New Delhi's white-pillared hub — shop, eat, people-watch.

History: Built 1929–33, modelled on Bath's Royal Crescent.

Things to do

›Inner & Outer Circle
›Central Park flag
›Janpath market
›Wenger's & Indian Coffee House

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Mar

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

₹300–1,500

Duration

Half day

Nearby attractions

Within

0.5 km

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Jantar Mantar

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Janpath & Tibetan Market

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Connaught Place's bohemian spine — Rajasthani mirror-work, silver, curios and the Tibetan stalls of turquoise, thangkas and wool.

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Gurudwara Bangla Sahib

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The golden-domed gurudwara on the site where the child Guru Har Krishan healed the sick — its holy sarovar and langar feeding tens of thousands daily.

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4.4

Agrasen ki Baoli

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A 60-metre, 108-step stepwell of arched galleries hidden among Connaught Place towers — film-famous, echoing and layered with bat-and-djinn legend.

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1.5 km

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Delhi Street-Food Tour (Old & New)

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The city on a plate — chole bhature at Sitaram Diwan Chand, butter chicken's Moti Mahal birthplace, Bengali Market chaat and UPSC-lane momos.

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Laxminarayan Temple (Birla Mandir)

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The 1939 Birla-built shrine Gandhi inaugurated on the condition it welcome all castes — cream-and-saffron shikharas, gardens and a Geeta-Bhawan.

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4.2

Delhi Metro Heritage Line & Hop-On Tour

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The Violet/Yellow-line 'Heritage' stretch linking Kashmere Gate, Chandni Chowk, Jama Masjid, Delhi Gate and Central Secretariat — the city's easiest monument-hopper.

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4.2

Cathedral Church of the Redemption

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Lutyens'-era 'Viceroy's Church' (1935) near Rashtrapati Bhavan — a serene Herbert Baker design of high arches and quiet Anglican grandeur.

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4.6

Republic Day Parade Route (Kartavya Path)

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The January 26 spectacle down Kartavya Path — tableaux, marching columns, the flypast over India Gate and the Beating Retreat finale three days later.

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National Museum

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India's premier collection — the Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro, Buddha's claimed relics, Chola bronzes, miniatures and the Tanjore armoury under one roof.

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National War Memorial

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Concentric granite chakras behind India Gate honouring 26,000 post-independence fallen — an eternal flame under an obelisk, names cut in gold.

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India Gate & Kartavya Path

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Lutyens' 42-m war memorial arch to 90,000 fallen soldiers, the Amar Jawan flame, and the renewed ceremonial avenue of lawns, fountains and ice-cream evenings.

Oct–Mar; evenings1–2 hrsExplore