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Loading…Memorial on Goubert Avenue to soldiers of French India who died in the First World War, lit up on 14 July.
The memorial honours soldiers from the French territories in India who died in 1914-1918. Four white columns frame a statue of a soldier leaning on his rifle, in a small garden on the seafront, and it is illuminated on Bastille Day, 14 July.
Within 1 km of French War Memorial.
Park in Puducherry.
Small government museum in Bharathi Park with Arikamedu Roman finds, Chola and Pallava sculpture, bronzes and French colonial objects.
Old Ganesha temple near the seafront, older than the French settlement, with a gold chariot taken out at Dussehra.
Park in Puducherry.
About 1.2 km rocky seafront along Goubert Avenue, from the War Memorial to Dupleix Park, lined with statues and heritage buildings.
29 m lighthouse of 1835 on Goubert Avenue, decommissioned in 1979; seen from the Promenade.
Small doll museum on Goubert Avenue with about 120 dolls in regional costumes from across India.
Public library founded in 1827, among the oldest in India, with over 3 lakh books and a rare-book section.
A 72.5 m fluted tower begun in 1199, standing in a UNESCO-listed complex in Mehrauli. The complex also holds the Iron Pillar and the Alai Darwaza.
A 16th-century gateway from Sher Shah Suri's era on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, notorious as the place where three Mughal princes were shot in 1857.
A black marble platform with an eternal flame marking where Mahatma Gandhi was cremated in 1948, set in lawns by the Yamuna.
Lutyens' 42 m war-memorial arch on Kartavya Path, honouring Indian soldiers who died in WWI and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. Its lawns are a popular evening hangout.
Early 8th-century monolithic rock-cut Hindu temple complex near Kangra, facing the Dhauladhar across a temple pool.
A 200-acre wooded heritage park beside the Qutb complex with about 100 monuments, including Balban's tomb, Jamali Kamali and Rajon ki Baoli.
17th-century ruined town and fort in the Aravallis, famous as India's 'most haunted' site; no entry after sunset.
Ruined Paliwal Brahmin village west of Jaisalmer, abandoned in the 19th century and surrounded by local legend.