Sukhna Lake Promenade & Boating
Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India
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Sukhna Lake
Chandigarh, Chandigarh
Le Corbusier's 3-km man-made lake at the Shivalik foothills — a beloved promenade of morning walkers, pedal boats and migratory ducks, with the city's calmest sunrise views and Asia's longest rowing channel.
Sukhna Lakeside Fitness Trail & Cycling Track
Chandigarh, Chandigarh
The lakeside fitness trail and the succulent collections near Sukhna — open-air gyms, cycling loops and the health-culture spine of the northern city.
Garden of Silence & Sukhna Regatta Point
Chandigarh, Chandigarh
The quiet meditative garden and the rowing-and-yachting jetty at Sukhna's far end — Asian-games regatta water, sunrise mist and the Shivalik reflected.
Sukhna Lake Golf Course & Chandigarh Golf Club
Chandigarh, Chandigarh
The lush 18-hole championship course between Sukhna and the Shivaliks — old trees, water hazards and one of North India's most scenic golf greens.
Rock Garden
Chandigarh, Chandigarh
A secret kingdom built from broken bangles, crockery shards and industrial slag — Nek Chand's 40-acre labyrinth of waterfalls, arched courtyards and thousands of mosaic figures, created illegally at night and now a world-famous outsider-art wonder.
Rock Garden Waterfall & Phase 3 Amphitheatre
Chandigarh, Chandigarh
The later phases of Nek Chand's secret kingdom — the great artificial waterfall, the swing courtyard and the open-air amphitheatre of mosaic thrones.
Punjab & Haryana High Court
Chandigarh, Chandigarh
Corbusier's High Court — a great parasol roof over brise-soleil facades and the giant primary-colour piers of its monumental ramped entrance.
Pierre Jeanneret Museum, Sector 5
Chandigarh, Chandigarh
The restored home of Corbusier's cousin and on-site partner, who lived and worked in Chandigarh for years — his iconic furniture, drawings and city legacy.
Capitol Complex (UNESCO World Heritage)
Chandigarh, Chandigarh
Le Corbusier's monumental civic acropolis — the Secretariat, Assembly and High Court in raw concrete, inscribed by UNESCO in 2016 as modernist architecture's masterpiece.
Open Hand Monument
Chandigarh, Chandigarh
Chandigarh's emblem — Le Corbusier's 26-m rotating metal hand, 'open to give and to receive', in the sunken plaza of the Capitol Complex.
Palace of Assembly (Vidhan Sabha)
Chandigarh, Chandigarh
Le Corbusier's hyperbolic-shell assembly building — a great upturned cooling-tower dome, ceremonial enamel door and a sculpted portico of light and shadow.
Tower of Shadows & Geometric Hill
Chandigarh, Chandigarh
Corbusier's solar-study pavilion that controls sunlight without any 'artificial' aid, beside the Geometric Hill and the Martyrs' Memorial of the Capitol plaza.