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Kolkata, India
6 places worth your time in Kolkata, with what each is actually like and when to go.
White Makrana marble in a formal garden, built to commemorate an empress and now a museum of the empire that built it.
A cantilever bridge carrying a hundred thousand vehicles and far more pedestrians, built without a single nut or bolt.
The potters' quarter where the clay idols for Durga Puja are made, workshop after workshop of half-finished goddesses.
The oldest and largest museum in India, opened 1814, with a Bharhut stupa railing and an Egyptian mummy.
A Kali temple on the Hooghly and, across the river, a monastery whose architecture deliberately blends Hindu, Islamic and Christian forms.
Faded colonial dining rooms, and the South Park Street Cemetery where the tombs of the East India Company's dead stand under banyan roots.
