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New Delhi highlights: from India Gate to the pool of Bangla Sahib

New Delhi was born in 1911, when the British decided to move the capital of India here from Calcutta. Yet beneath its broad avenues and roundabouts, far older centuries keep surfacing. This mixed route gathers the must-see sights of the new city: India Gate, Connaught Place and the Bangla Sahib gurdwara. Along the way it also takes in two unexpected gems: a stepwell from the Sultanate era and a maharaja's astronomical observatory. History, architecture and the odd legend, all on foot.

  • 5 stops
  • 4.5 km
  • 2 h 30 min
  • Free
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The India Gate arch with the canopy in the background

The route

Stop by stop

  1. 1 India GateA 42-metre triumphal arch honouring more than 70,000 Indian soldiers who died in the First World War.
  2. 2 Agrasen ki BaoliA medieval stepwell hidden among tower blocks, with 108 steps leading down into silence.
  3. 3 Connaught PlaceThe great white-colonnaded circus the British built to give their new capital a commercial heart.
  4. 4 Jantar MantarIn 1724 an astronomer-maharaja built giant stone instruments here to measure the sky with the naked eye.
  5. 5 Gurdwara Bangla SahibThe bungalow of a raja where the Sikhs' child Guru died in 1664, now with a sacred pool and a kitchen that never closes.

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What you’ll discover

New Delhi highlights: from India Gate to the pool of Bangla Sahib

Three eras in one walk

From a medieval stepwell to an 18th-century observatory and Britain's imperial capital.

The must-see sights, unhurried

New Delhi's great icons, told through facts and anecdotes you can check.

A welcoming finale

The route ends at a gurdwara whose community kitchen feeds thousands of people for free every day.

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