Gateway of India

Mumbai (मुंबई ) 

      The ‘Gateway of India’ it is most certainly a prominent memorial building built up during the period of the British Raj reining in in Mumbai , India . Over that period Mumbai was named as Bombay . Gateway of India monument is placed on the waterfront in the Apollo Bunder locality , Southern part of Mumbai urban area and overlooks the Arabian Sea.

       This old structure is a hard rock arch , twenty six meters high ( eighty five feet high ) . It has been situated right at the end of Chhatrapati Shivaji Road at the water’s edge in the harbor of Bombay . Once it was actually a crude jetty widely-used by the fishing regional community . British governors as well as well known people afterwards redesigned it and adopted as a landing . In olden days , ‘Gateway of India’ would have been the primary structure that every noticed by visitors coming in by ferry in Mumbai city.

The Gateway of India has also been known as the Taj Mahal of Mumbai , and is the city’s one of the top tourist attraction.

      This soaring, 250-foot high clock tower combines Gothic and early French-style architectures. The reason why that you need to be visiting this place would be to see the English architecture adorning this oldest clock in the complete city and that’s what attracts the section that comes here to understand the spot but apart from that there’s not much that you do around here while there is no entrance to the clock tower and all you might do around the spot is to capture the spot in your lens and move around watching the adjacent university and its grounds and that’s the extent of what you certainly can do here. This famous tourist attraction is 1km away from Gateway of India.