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New Delhi

New Delhi is the capital of India. It houses the country's national political institutions: the seat of the Government of India, that of the Parliament, the residences of the President, the Vice-President, the Prime Minister, and the seat of the Supreme Court.

New Delhi is a municipality of nearly 250,000 inhabitants within the territory of Delhi, of which it is also the capital and which has a total of 16.3 million inhabitants.

New Delhi is a new city created at the beginning of the 20th century by the desire of the British to move the capital of the British Raj, then in Calcutta, to a more central and symbolic position. Its construction was announced on March 22, 1911 by George V during Delhi Durbar. The city was built by architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker and inaugurated on February 13, 1931 by Viceroy Lord Irwin.

India Gate.
The India Gate (formerly known as All India War Memorial) is a war memorial located near the Kartavya path on the eastern edge of the "ceremonial axis" of New Delhi.

  • It stands as a memorial to 84,000 soldiers of the Indian Army who died between 1914 and 1921 in the First World War.
  • Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the gate evokes the architectural style of the memorial arch such as the Arch of Constantine, in Rome, and is often compared to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the Gateway of India in Mumbai.
  • See more at India Gate - Wikipedia.

Stéphane Martin.
Our speaker on this tour is specialist Stéphane Martin.

  • Art historian and graduate of the École du Louvre.

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Location

Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India