Kolkata (Calcutta) Sights

  1. Marble Palace Mansion

    The extraordinarily grand 1853 Marble Palace Mansion is indulgently overstuffed with statues and lavishly floored with marble inlay. Yet its fine paintings droop in their dusty frames and the antique furniture is haphazardly draped in torn old dust sheets. It would make a great horror-movie set.

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  2. Park Street Cemetery

    Today Park St is one of Kolkata's top commercial avenues. But when built in the 1760s it was a simple causeway across uninhabited marshlands built for mourners to access the then-new Park Street Cemetery. Today that cemetery remains a wonderful oasis of calm with mossy Raj-era graves - from rotundas to soaring pyramids - jostling for space in a lightly manicured jungle. Buying the guide-booklet supports its maintenance.

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