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Kasba Peth, Pune — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Kasba Peth is the oldest peth in Pune, called the Heart of Pune City, and it lies beside the historic Shaniwar Wada palace-fort.
About Kasba Peth
Where to stay in Kasba Peth
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Kasba Peth is the oldest residential part of Pune. Most visitors book a room out in the wider old city and walk in, because the lanes here carry houses, workshops and temple doors rather than any concentration of hotels. Kasba Peth is walked from a bed elsewhere.
The Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum sits within the same reach. Stay in the surrounding peths if you want Kasba Peth's temples and wadas outside the door each morning.
About Kasba Peth
What are the main landmarks in Kasba Peth?
Shaniwar Wada stands immediately beside the peth. The museums and archives that hold the old city's record sit in the peths around rather than inside the first peth itself, an easy walk from its lanes in any direction. The Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, the Mahatma Phule Museum and Shree Ganesh Darshan Sangrahalaya hold the collections.
Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal keeps its archive among them. The Umaji Naik Samadhi and Jail and the Nanasaheb Peshwe Samadhi mark other corners of Pune.
What is the history of Kasba Peth?
Pune's peths start with this one. The first of them was laid out here sometime during the 5th century, and in the record of Pune the city itself was once known as Kasbe Pune. Kasba Peth is still the oldest residential ground in the city.
Shaniwar Wada stands on the land beside it, while Mahatma Phule Wada and Vishrambaug Wada keep the record of the old city in the peths around, a short walk from these lanes.
Where is Kasba Peth?
Kasba Peth holds the oldest ground in Pune's old city, its lanes running from the Shaniwar Wada palace-fort into the peths that came after. Everything else rings it.
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Updated September 2026