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Tulshibaug, Pune — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Tulshibaug is an old-city quarter of Pune where a historic temple precinct and a large market share the same few lanes.
About Tulshibaug
Where to stay in Tulshibaug
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
The Tulshibaug lanes rent shopfronts, not rooms. Most stays sit further out in the old city of Pune, close enough that the temple queue and the stall rows stay a walk rather than a ride from the door. Vishrambaug Wada stands in that same old quarter, and a room near it keeps the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum on the same short walk as the market.
Deccan Gymkhana Ground sits well beyond those lanes, on the far side of the old city.
About Tulshibaug
What are the main landmarks in Tulshibaug?
Tulshibaug's draw is the temple ground. Stalls have spread around that precinct until the market and the temple read as one stop, and the rest of the old quarter's register sits inside the same walkable knot of lanes. Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum and Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal both sit in that older half of Pune.
Vishrambaug Wada fronts a nearby street. Mahatma Phule Wada, the Nanasaheb Peshwe Samadhi and the Darshan Museum stand further off, separate errands rather than extensions of a morning among the stalls.
What is the history of Tulshibaug?
Tulshibaug belongs to the oldest built part of Pune, the close-packed older half where a temple precinct and the market pressed against it set a pattern the lanes still follow. The temple ground and the market carry the quarter's age instead of any recorded founding year. Wadas and samadhis ring Tulshibaug.
Vishrambaug Wada, the Nanasaheb Peshwe Samadhi and the Mahatma Phule Wada all stand within the same old-city streets of Pune, and the Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal keeps its address among them.
Where is Tulshibaug?
Tulshibaug takes up a knot of lanes inside the old city of Pune, in Maharashtra, closed in by shopfronts and temple wall rather than by open ground.
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Updated September 2026