Things to do in Southern fringes of Kolkata, West Bengal
30 places to visit in and around Southern fringes of Kolkata, best known first. Tap a place for directions, or let Turkart turn them into a day-by-day plan.
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- 1Narendrapur Wildlife Sanctuary
Narendrapur Wildlife Sanctuary in South 24 Parganas District, West Bengal is an Orchard Plantation and constitutes only 17 acres and is rich in smaller birds, specially paradise flycatcher, oriole, etc.
- 2Chintamoni Kar Bird Sanctuary
Chintamoni Kar Bird Sanctuary, formerly known as Kayaler Bagan, is a bird sanctuary located in West Bengal, India, south of Kolkata. This garden is famous for its wide variety of birds, butterflies, ferns and orchids.
- 3Fort William, West Bengal
Fort William, officially Vijay Durg, is a fort in Hastings, Calcutta. It was built during the early years of Britain's administration of Bengal.
- 4Gurusaday Museum
The Gurusaday Museum is a folk arts and crafts museum located in Kolkata, India.
- 5State Archaeological Museum
State Archaeological Museum, West Bengal in Kolkata, West Bengal, is an archeological museum founded in 1962 and has collections including rare tools of the Early, Middle and the Late Stone Ages from Susunia and other sites, proto-historic antiquities from…
- 6Kolkata Museum of Modern Art
Kolkata Museum of Modern Art is a proposed art museum to be built in New Town, Kolkata.
- 7Birla Industrial & Technological Museum
Birla Industrial & Technological Museum is a science museum in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is a unit under National Council of Science Museums, Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
- 8Victoria Memorial, Kolkata
The Victoria Memorial is a large marble monument in the Maidan in Central Kolkata, having its entrance on the Queen's Way. It was built between 1906 and 1921 by the British Raj.
- 9Birla Planetarium, Kolkata
The Birla Planetarium in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is a single-storeyed circular structure designed in the typical Indian style, whose architecture is loosely styled on the Buddhist Stupa at Sanchi.
- 10Tipu Sultan Masjid Tollygunge
The Tipu Sultan Masjid, also called Shaheed Tipu Sultan Masjid, is a Sunni mosque, located on Prince Anwar Shah Road in Tollygunge, Kolkata, in the state of West Bengal, India.
- 11Radhakanta Temple, Chetla
The Radhanath Temple in Chetla, India built between 1796 and 1807 by Babu Ramnath Mondal of the Bawali Raj family, is one of the most prominent heritage temples along the old Adi Ganga.
- 12Kalighat Temple
Kalighat Kali Temple is a Hindu temple in Kalighat, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kali, one of the 10 Mahavidyas in the Hindu tantric tradition and the supreme deity in the Kalikula worship tradition.
- 13Pathrakaliamman Temple
- 14Rabindra Sarobar
- 15Lake Kalibari
- 16Zoological Garden, Alipore
- 17Shri Laxminarayan Temple, Kolkata
- 18Birla Mandir, Kolkata
- 19Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
- 20St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata
- 21Hastings Chapel, Kolkata
- 22Lascar War Memorial
- 23St. Thomas Church, Kolkata
- 24Prinsep Ghat
- 25Deshapriya Park
- 26Agri-Horticultural Society of India
- 27Nature Park of India
- 28Benubana Chhaya
- 29Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers
- 30Mohor Kunja