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Places
to Visit in Punjab Amritsar  Amritsar - the holy city of Sikhs, has grown from a sacred
village pond into a spiritual temporal centre of Sikh culture. The
city gets its name from the pool-Amritsar (Pool of Nectar), which
was constructed by the fourth religious preceptor of the Sikh faith.
It also lies on the Asian Highway.It is also the city where Jaliyan-wala-bagh, the garden where scores of innocent Indian men, women, children were massacred by the British. Events of such magnitude catalysed the struggle for Indian independence. Chandigarh  Serenity and a city are two diametrically opposite concepts,
which however, get belied in the 'City Beautiful'. Chandigarh is a
rare epitome of modernization co-existing with nature's preservation.
It is here that the trees and plants are as much a part of the construction
plans as the buildings and the roads.Thanks to the creative genius of Le Corbusier, the city retains its inherent character even today, as conceived by him in his Master Plan. Corbusier's architectural ingenuity endowed with uniform and standardized structure designs. Wide roads, sector wise divisions, tree-lined avenues, land scaping and a wide piazza, lends the city a special character and a unique orderliness.
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