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Photo: Photo by <b><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:A.Savin">A.Savin</a></span></b> via Wikimedia Commons (FAL)Built in 1864 to honour a governor, it has become an unofficial meeting point in the heart of the Fort district.
A Gothic Revival monument built in 1864 to commemorate Sir Bartle Frere, the Governor of Bombay whose reclamation and infrastructure projects reshaped the city's Fort district. Standing at a busy traffic junction, its ornate stone carvings and figures make it one of colonial Bombay's most elaborate civic fountains. It has become an unofficial landmark and meeting point in the historic Fort precinct. The surrounding area retains much of its 19th-century streetscape.
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The Portuguese built it in 1640 to watch for approaching ships. Now people come to watch the sun go down.
Portuguese fishing villages, old Catholic churches and the bungalows of the East Indian Catholic community, all within a single walk.
Mumbai's double-decker buses have been a fixture since 1937. Here they are kept, with old tram memorabilia, as part of the story of how the city moved.