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Bombay's first planned public square, laid out on the old Bombay Green, now a quiet garden ringed by Victorian Gothic buildings.
A cluster of Victorian Gothic civic buildings and Art Deco residential blocks around Horniman Circle Garden in Mumbai's Fort district, including the Town Hall (1833), now home to the Asiatic Society library. The circular garden itself was laid out on the site of the old Bombay Green in the 1860s. Together with the Oval Maidan ensemble, it forms part of Mumbai's UNESCO-recognised Victorian Gothic and Art Deco heritage precinct. The area remains a functioning commercial and civic hub today.
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Built to remember soldiers killed in the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1838 to 1842, it carries their regiments in stained glass and marble.
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.