Kolkata is home to the Bengali community widely known for their sentiments, critique and intellect. This apparently slow moving city - with its heavily conjested streets, unplanned localities and batches of crumbling buildings from the colonial past - is not a typical tourist's paradise. Particularly the North Calcutta Walking Tour takes you through the meandering lanes of north Calcutta. On to the hidden courtyards of merchantsââ¬â¢ houses, steeped in 300 years of history. The visitor will also experience a slice of the warm, bustling cityââ¬â¢s life, as he will walk into traditional Bengali homes and meet residents. Built by Bengali merchants, wealthy from commerce with the Company, the houses on the tour are characterized by well-decorated gates; central courtyards with projecting cast-iron balconies covered with wooden awnings, and stained glass windows. A city of love and warmth, sorrow and despair, dreams and hopes, poverty and squalor, grandeur and glory, Calcutta is compelling, effervescent, teeming with life and traditions a medley of moods, styles, cultures, politics, industry and commerce.
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