Serampore Heritage Town
Serampore, West Bengal, India
Nearby attractions
Dakshineswar Kali Temple
Kolkata, West Bengal
The great navaratna temple of Goddess Bhavatarini on the Hooghly, where Sri Ramakrishna served as priest and attained his visions.
Chandannagar Strand
Chandannagar, West Bengal
The elegant riverfront promenade of former French India — colonial mansions, the Sacred Heart Church and Jagaddhatri Puja's light magic.
Belur Math
Howrah, West Bengal
The serene headquarters of the Ramakrishna Mission on the Hooghly, whose temple fuses Hindu, Christian and Islamic architectural motifs.
Kumartuli Potters' Quarter
Kolkata, West Bengal
The riverside lanes where generations of artisans sculpt Kolkata's Durga Puja idols from Hooghly clay and straw.
Hooghly Imambara
Hooghly, West Bengal
Haji Mohammad Mohsin's grand riverside imambara (1861), famed for its 85-ft twin towers and a giant clock whose key weighs 20 kg.
Howrah Bridge
Kolkata, West Bengal
The iconic 1943 cantilever bridge over the Hooghly — 705 m of riveted steel carrying a hundred thousand vehicles and countless stories daily.
Jorasanko Thakur Bari
Kolkata, West Bengal
The ancestral mansion where Rabindranath Tagore was born and died, now a museum of the Tagore family's world.
Marble Palace Kolkata
Kolkata, West Bengal
An 1835 neoclassical mansion of the Mullick family, crammed with Rubens-school paintings, Belgian mirrors and 126 kinds of marble.
College Street Boi Para
Kolkata, West Bengal
The world's largest second-hand book market, a kilometre of stalls around Presidency University and the immortal Indian Coffee House.
Eden Gardens
Kolkata, West Bengal
The 'Mecca of Indian cricket' — a 66,000-seat colosseum by the Hooghly that has roared since 1864.
Eco Park New Town
Kolkata, West Bengal
India's largest urban park — 480 acres of themed gardens, a lake, cycling tracks and the 'Seven Wonders' replicas at Rajarhat.
Bandel Basilica
Hooghly, West Bengal
One of India's oldest churches (1599, rebuilt 1660) — the Portuguese basilica of Our Lady of the Happy Voyage, with its shipwreck-legend mast.