Chandigarh, India: sculptures inside the Rock Garden of Chandigarh,India
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Emilio Navarino / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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3776 x 2520 px | 32 x 21.3 cm | 12.6 x 8.4 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
23 August 2010Location:
Rock Garden, Sector 1, Chandigarh, IndiaMore information:
Chandigarh, the "Silver City" is a settlement built in the Indian state of Punjab, at the foot of the Himalayas, in a vast desert plateau. In Chandigarh the Indian crowds, traffic jams of cars, bikes, wagons and sacred cows are absent or barely perceptible. The city, built between 1950 and 1965, was commissioned by Nehru after the split between India and Pakistan as the capital of that part of the state of Punjab does not have an administrative center (Lahore over beyond the border had become the capital Pakistani Punjab). The project was entrusted modernist architect Le Corbusier was asking for "a new city, a symbol of India's freedom, freed from the tradition of the past, the nation's affirmation of faith in the future."