Sailing from nautical and nautical away, the viajeros had arrived on the banks, banked it, flagged it, settled, baptized and conquered it… and brought a change that rippled across the subcontinent and drew alternate (gory)sketches on the canvas that altogether changed the discourse of history. We will take you on a journey from where it all began.
From the Portuguese, Danish, French, and English, these sleepy suburbans still bear testimony to the colonial histories and wraths. And also, on the contrary, the protests and the earliest voice of dissent from where the earliest slogan of “Vande Mataram and Social Reformations had enunciated. A tour which would un-envelope a letter long back from the past and make send it back to your address to re-live the path from where we sailed off to building our great nation.
Our dedicated expert team for heritage city tour will meet and greet you at the Taj Gateway. After a brief introduction, we would quickly set off for the day's tour.
Chandannagar Museum holds the age-old French influences through numerous French and British artifacts from the colonial rule. The museum is located right at the bank of River Hooghly popularly called as Strand Road in Chandannagar. This heritage French establishment also has a small but formidable collection of antiquities from the Nawab rule. The museum and institute also offer French classes on a regular basis.
Susanna Anna Maria’s Grave or Tomb of Susanna Anna Maria, a monument from the Dutch era that resembles a temple and locally called the Dutch Mandir. The tomb is also locally famous as ‘saat saheber bibir kobor‘(tomb of the wife of seven Europeans), or ‘memsaheber kobor’ (tomb of the European lady). The memorial of Susana Anna Maria is located at Kaeipara, Dharampur more popularly known now as Taldanga – KhadinaMore and can be seen along the G.T. Road between Chinsurah and Chandernagore, West Bengal.
We would take our lunch break to savor authentic Bengali delicacies. Fuel up for the rest of the day!
The Dutch Cemetery of Chinsurah was constructed on the order of the director of the Dutch East India Company in Bengal. The cemetery and all its graves are now maintained and Archaeological Survey of India under the protection of ancient monuments and archaeological sites and remains of national importance.
Hooghly Imambara is a Shia Muslim congregation hall and mosque in Hooghly, West Bengal, India. The construction of the building was started by Muhammad Mohsin in 1841 and completed in 1861. The building is a two-storied structure, with a tall clock tower over the entrance gate. The interior of the mosque is decorated with marbles, candles, and hanging lanterns.
The Basilica of the Holy Rosary commonly known as Bandel Church is one of the oldest Christian churches in West Bengal, India. Founded in 1599, it is dedicated to Nossa Senhora do Rosário, Our Lady of the Rosary and is also a parish church, part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta. It is one of the most prominent historical churches in West Bengal that stands as a memorial to the Portuguese settlement in Bengal.
Hangseswari temple or Hanseswari temple is a Hindu Temple of goddess Hangseswari (the goddess who came in a dream of Raja Nrisingha Deb Roy Mahasay) in the town of Banshberia at Hooghly District, Indian state of West Bengal. The architecture of the temples is the representation of "Tantrik Satchakrabhed". The structure tells about the structure of a Human Body. Because the five-storied temple is like the five parts of our Human body, such as known Bajraksha, Ira, Chitrini, Pingala and Sushumna.
Zafar Khan Ghazi Masjid, located some 70 km to the North of Calcutta (Kolkata), in the town of Tribeni is not just the oldest mosque of Bengal; it is the oldest standing Islamic structure of any kind. The complex consists of a mosque and a dargah, with several tombs and it remains an active religious site. The area which contains his mosque and dargah two-storied referred to as “Ghazi Sahab ka Dutch” in the 1840’s.
After the day's tour through the heritage of the city, we will drop you at your hotel. Wish you a pleasant evening and hope you cherish the memories.
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every moment will someday make you look back and want to experience it all over again.
