Where to Stay in New Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi

What is New Delhi known for?

The three branches of the state meet here, in the Rashtrapati Bhavan, in Sansad Bhavan, and in the Supreme Court, all set along the avenues of Lutyens' Delhi. Government defines it. Beyond the offices stand the national collections, from the National Museum and the National Gallery of Modern Art to Gandhi Smriti and the National War Memorial.

The capital wears its institutions openly.

What are the main landmarks in New Delhi?

New Delhi's landmarks cluster along the avenues of Lutyens' Delhi. The Rashtrapati Bhavan, Sansad Bhavan, and the National War Memorial mark the ceremonial core, while the national collections gather close by. The museums run deep.

Within a short radius stand the National Museum, the National Gallery of Modern Art, Gandhi Smriti, Teen Murti Bhavan with the Prime Ministers Museum & Library, and Sacred Heart Cathedral. Culture keeps its own address here at Triveni Kala Sangam.

What is the history of New Delhi?

New Delhi was founded in 1911 as a planned capital. The new city rose beside the older settlements of Delhi, laid out on a grid of broad avenues and roundabouts that came to be known as Lutyens' Delhi. It began as an act of design.

Rather than spreading outward from a market or a fort, the capital was drawn on paper first, its long axes fixed across the ground that would carry the seat of government. Government gave the young city its shape. Over the century that followed, New Delhi drew in the three branches of the Government of India, the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Sansad Bhavan, and the Supreme Court settling along its avenues, while the national museums and memorials gathered around them.

The institutions kept coming. The National Museum, Teen Murti Bhavan with the Prime Ministers Museum & Library, Gandhi Smriti, and the National War Memorial each took their place in the plan, turning the capital into a city of collections and offices alike. Administration followed the growth.

The New Delhi Municipal Council took charge of the core, and the municipality settled within the wider New Delhi district of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The plan of 1911 still holds. Its avenues, roundabouts, and vistas remain the frame on which the capital of India has been built.

Where is New Delhi?

New Delhi occupies the planned core of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The municipality covers Lutyens' Delhi and a few adjoining areas, and forms the central part of the wider New Delhi district that surrounds it. It lies well inland.

The capital stands away from any coast, set among the older quarters of Delhi, with the avenues of Lutyens' Delhi laid over the ground at the heart of the territory. India governs from this compact centre.

What is the climate of New Delhi?

New Delhi has a hot subtropical climate with sharply divided seasons. Long and very hot months build through spring and early summer, before the monsoon breaks and turns the air humid over the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Winters run cool.

Once the rains pass, the capital settles into a short and mild cool season, with chilly, hazy mornings across the territory before the heat returns. The range across the year is wide.

How do you get to New Delhi?

New Delhi is reached as the heart of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. As the capital of India and the seat of the Government of India, it draws road and rail routes from across the country toward the government quarter of Lutyens' Delhi. All roads seem to bend here.

Within the city, the wide avenues and roundabouts of the plan carry traffic between the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the museums, and the surrounding New Delhi district. Arrival puts the institutions at hand.