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Raisina Hill, New Delhi — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Raisina Hill is the government quarter of New Delhi, the ridge holding Rashtrapati Bhavan above the ministries.
About Raisina Hill
Where to stay in Raisina Hill
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Raisina Hill itself is a sealed state precinct, so travellers base themselves along its edges and walk in. The core is offices. Beds toward the National Museum place the country's largest collection within a short stroll and set you near the National Gallery of Modern Art, the art rooms of a converted palace on the district's southern flank.
Stays over toward Teen Murti Bhavan trade the wide state avenues for a leafier pocket beside the old Nehru residence and the National War Memorial. Pick your fringe first.
About Raisina Hill
What are the main landmarks in Raisina Hill?
Rashtrapati Bhavan crowns the ridge. The President's citadel and the flanking Secretariat give the district its acropolis outline, and their long axis draws most of Raisina Hill's visitors. Museums ring the state core on every side.
A short way out stand the National Museum with the country's largest public collection, the palace galleries of the National Gallery of Modern Art, the Nehru rooms and planetarium at Teen Murti Bhavan, the Gandhi displays of Gandhi Smriti, and the arch of the National War Memorial, so a stay here places the ridge within reach of some of the capital's foremost public institutions.
What is the history of Raisina Hill?
Raisina Hill was chosen as the seat of the transferred imperial capital and levelled to carry the new government buildings of New Delhi. The plan set Rashtrapati Bhavan on the crest, flanked by the two blocks of the Secretariat, so the whole composition reads as an acropolis with the President's house standing in for the Parthenon. Power stayed put.
After independence the President took the citadel, the ministries kept the Secretariat, and the museums that gathered along the edges, from Gandhi Smriti to Teen Murti Bhavan, turned the state ridge into a quarter that records the making of the republic.
Where is Raisina Hill?
Raisina Hill rises as a low ridge in the state core of New Delhi, a subtropical plain quarter where the Rashtrapati Bhavan citadel and the Secretariat crown the crest above the surrounding ministries.
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Updated July 2026