Places to Visit in Punjab
Amritsar
Amritsar
- the holy city of Sikhs, has grown from a sacred village pond into a spiritual
temporal centre of Sikh culture. The city gets its name from the pool-Amritsar
(Pool of Nectar), which was constructed by the fourth religious preceptor of
the Sikh faith. It also lies on the Asian Highway.
It is also the city where Jaliyan-wala-bagh, the garden where scores of innocent
Indian men, women, children were massacred by the British. Events of such magnitude
catalysed the struggle for Indian independence.
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Chandigarh
Serenity
and a city are two diametrically opposite concepts, which however, get belied
in the 'City Beautiful'. Chandigarh is a rare epitome of modernization co-existing
with nature's preservation. It is here that the trees and plants are as much
a part of the construction plans as the buildings and the roads.
Thanks to the creative genius of Le Corbusier, the city retains its inherent
character even today, as conceived by him in his Master Plan. Corbusier's architectural
ingenuity endowed with uniform and standardized structure designs. Wide roads,
sector wise divisions, tree-lined avenues, land scaping and a wide piazza, lends
the city a special character and a unique orderliness.
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