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National Gallery of Portraits, Sector 17

Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India

4.1 (0)

Overview

A gallery of paintings, photographs and busts of India's freedom fighters and national leaders, with a research library, in the Sector 17 civic heart.

Why visit: The faces of the freedom struggle, downtown.

Things to do

›Leader portraits
›Freedom-struggle photos
›Busts gallery
›Sector 17 combo

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Travel Information

Best time

Year-round (closed Mon)

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

Free–₹100

Duration

1 hr

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Within

0.1 km

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Asia's largest rose garden — 50,000 bushes of 1,600 varieties across 30 acres, exploding into colour and scent for the February Rose Festival.

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Cricket & Sports Chandigarh (Sector 16 Stadium)

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Dioramas of evolution, prehistoric life, dinosaur models and regional flora-and-fauna galleries — the science annexe of the Sector 10 museum campus.

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The story of Chandigarh's creation — original master-plans, letters, photographs and models of the Corbusier team's making of independent India's first planned city.

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📍 Nature

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Leisure Valley & Rajendra Park

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