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Where to Stay in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
Bareilly is a city of northern Uttar Pradesh in India, the old capital of Rohilkhand, a temple city of the Gangetic plain famed for its earrings and its kite-string.
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Where to stay in Bareilly
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Where you stay in Bareilly turns on the town or the shrines. The old city keeps the bazaars, the temples, and the markets within a walk, and staying downtown suits anyone here for the crafts. Flat country opens past the last lane.
Looms clack in the lanes. Out toward the river and the hills, the town gives way to the quiet suburbs, the cane fields, and the road up to the Kumaon. A room out of the centre trades the bazaars for the green fields, the calm river, and the far blue line of the hills.
Cane fields go on past every horizon. Stay downtown for the crafts, or out for the country. The old temples and the busy bazaars hold the Nath city.
About Bareilly
Bareilly is the Nath city of Rohilkhand.
What is Bareilly known for?
On the plains of northern Uttar Pradesh in India, near the Kumaon hills, it grew as the seat of the Rohilla kings, and it keeps the old Shiva temples of the Naths, the great shrine of Ala Hazrat, the jhumka earrings and zari embroidery of its bazaars, and the kite-string spun in its lanes. The flat plain runs to the hills. Looms and shops fill the lanes.
What are the main landmarks in Bareilly?
The Nath temples are the pride of Bareilly. The seven old Shiva shrines of the Nath yogis, ringing the town, are the emblem of the city, downtown. A great shrine draws the pilgrims.
The tomb of Ala Hazrat draws Muslim pilgrims from across the plain nearby, while the jhumka bazaars, the Ramganga river, and the Kumaon foothills mark the country around Bareilly.
What is the history of Bareilly?
Bareilly was the seat of the Rohillas. In the seventeen-hundreds the Rohilla Afghans made it the capital of Rohilkhand, and the town grew rich on the trade of the plain. The Naths gave it their temples.
Seven old Shiva temples of the Nath yogis ringed the town, and Bareilly took the name of the Nath city. The crafts made the bazaars famous. Its lanes turned out jhumka earrings, zari embroidery, cane furniture, and the coated string for kite-flying, sold across the land.
A great shrine drew the faithful. The tomb of Ala Hazrat became a place of pilgrimage for the Muslims of the plain, and Bareilly grew as a market and temple city of Rohilkhand, keeping its temples, its shrine, and its crafts. The looms still work the lanes.
Bareilly keeps its Nath city on the plain.
Where is Bareilly?
Bareilly lies in the north of Uttar Pradesh in India, on the Ramganga river of the plain. The city sits on the flat Gangetic plain near the Kumaon foothills, in a green land of cane and wheat, with the Ramganga winding by and the Himalayan foothills rising far to the north. The river winds through the fields.
Green fields spread to the hills.
What is the climate of Bareilly?
Bareilly has a hot, humid plains climate. Scorching summers and cool winters cross the Gangetic plain, with fierce heat before the monsoon and cold foggy days in winter. The monsoon floods the fields.
Winter mornings turn to fog.
How do you get to Bareilly?
Bareilly lies in northern Uttar Pradesh, on the road to the hills. Trains and the highway run to it from Delhi and Lucknow, and roads climb north to Nainital and the Kumaon. Pilgrims fill the trains.
Delhi lies west down the line.
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Updated August 2026