Monday, August 15, 2011

Night Tourism at Chandigarh

Chandigarh Tourism has planned to promote night tourism in the city to add a new dimension to its product. Architectural edifices and monuments of Le Corbusier (Chandigarh's founder-architect) shall be illuminated keeping in view their prime importance in the city's the history.

The city's 'Capitol Complex' in Sector 1, which houses the buildings designed by Le Corbusier and his team in the 1950s and 1960s, will see buildings like the Punjab and Haryana civil secretariat complex, assembly complex and the Punjab and Haryana high court complex being illuminated.

To make the night tourism experience better, Chandigarh Tourism plans to conduct evening sightseeing tours on the city's double-decker 'Hop on Hop off' buses to the city's tourist attractions and monuments.

The administration has started landscaping and lighting up entry points to Chandigarh on the peripheral routes at Mullanpur, Mohali and Panchkula.

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