Arts Acre

Arts Acre is A village for the visual arts with art gallery, artists in residence and artists at work.

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Diamond Harbour

Diamond Harbour is 48 km south of Calcutta, Diamond Harbour is a scenic picnic spot by the banks of the River Hooghly.
o Bus from Esplanade
o Train from Sealdah

Chandannagar

Chandannagar is 37 km north of Calcutta, on the banks of the River Hooghly. It was one of the French enclaves of India and has churches, convents and crumbling buildings dating back to that era. The first French settlers arrived here in 1673 and made Chandannagar an important trading post which was handed over in 1951.
o Local train

Nicco Park

Joining the modern stream of theme parks, Nico Park is the Disneyland for Calcuttans with its various adventure rides. Nico Park situated at Salt Lake has a variety of unusual games and rides. The Cave Ride is the latest addition and is the only of its kind in this part of the world. It is a spacious park covering about 40-acre land. It is one of the biggest amusement parks in the country and it was opened in the year 1991.

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Bandel

Bandel is 43 km from Calcutta and north of the Hooghly, Bandel is a tourist destination for its churches and monasteries built here by the Portuguese in 1599, destroyed 40 years later with the British takeover, and rebuilt a few years later.
o Local train

Travel Agents in Kolkata

The travel agents in Kolkata are very efficient and cooperative with their clients. The travel agents and travel agencies are increasing in Kolkata because of the busy lifestyle of its people due to which they hardly get time to plan their travel. For planning the full travel and arranging the necessary things like tickets, hotels, etc. travel agents in Kolkata offer their service to the clients. They also intimate to the clients about the weather condition of a particular place which is major consideration while you visit a place.

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Rabindra Nath Tagore

Rabindra Nath Tagore,  a Pirali Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tagore first wrote poems at the age of eight. At the age of sixteen, he published his first substantial poetry under the pseudonym Bhanushingho (“Sun Lion”) and wrote his first short stories and dramas in 1877. He became Asia’s first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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