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Vadgaon Budruk, Pune — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Vadgaon Budruk names itself for the banyan, the greater of the two Vadgaons on Sinhgad Road, a Pune suburb edged by the Katraj-Dehu Road Bypass.
About Vadgaon Budruk
Where to stay in Vadgaon Budruk
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Vadgaon Budruk carries no hotel row of its own, so the choice here is really a question about position on Sinhgad Road. Rooms sit back toward Sarasbaug junction in Parvati, where that road begins, and the suburb is more often the stretch a traveller passes through than the one they book. Abhiruchi Mall sits on the western side.
Staying out this far suits you when Sinhagad is the errand, because the same street carries on through Vadgaon Khurd, Dhayari, and Khadakwasla to the foot of the fort.
About Vadgaon Budruk
What are the main landmarks in Vadgaon Budruk?
Vadgaon Budruk's own marked names are a mall and a bridge. Abhiruchi Mall and Multiplex opened in 2013 at Veer Baji Pasalkar Chowk, the junction named for Shivaji's first Sarsenapati, and Navale Bridge carries the Katraj-Dehu Road Bypass over the suburb's southern edge. Three attractions listed nearby sit outside it.
The Blades of Glory Cricket Museum answers to a Sahakar Nagar address, the Maharshi Karve Memorial stands on the Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha campus at Karvenagar, and Shivsrushti lies down the road at Dhayari.
What is the history of Vadgaon Budruk?
Vadgaon Budruk took the larger half of a split village name. Budruk and Khurd came into Maratha place-naming from Persian, marking the greater and the smaller of two settlements that share a name, and Vadgaon Khurd still sits down the same road. The root is a tree.
Vad is the Marathi word for the banyan, gaon for village, so the name reads as the village of the banyans. Sinhgad Road itself carries a formal name, Narveer Tanaji Malusare Road, for the general who took Kondhana in 1670.
Where is Vadgaon Budruk?
Vadgaon Budruk lies on Pune's south-west side, bounded by Sinhgad Road along its length and, at its southern end, the Katraj-Dehu Road Bypass at Navale Bridge.
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Updated September 2026