Connaught Place
Located at the northern end of New Delhi, Connaught Place is the business and tourist centre.It's a vast traffic circle with an architecturally uniform series of buildings around the edge-mainly devoted to shops, banks, restaurants and the like. The inner circle is now becoming hub as a main Metro Station connecting Delhi to North, Southwest and East.

Jantar Mantar
Only a short stroll down Sansad Marg (Parliament St.) from Connaught Place brings you to the site built by one of Maharaja Jai Singh II's observatories.The ruler from Jaipur constructed this observatory in 1725.. Other instruments plot the course of heavenly bodies and predict eclipses.

Lakshmi Narayan Temple
Situated due west of Connaught Place, this garish modern temple was erected by the industrialist B D Birla in 1938. It's dedicated to Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity and good fortune, and is commonly known as Birla Mandir.

Rajpath
The Kingsway is another focus of Lutyens' New Delhi. It is immensely broad and is flanked on either side by ornamental ponds. The Republic Day parade is held here every January 26, and millions of people gather to enjoy the spectacle.

At the eastern end of Rajpath lies the India Gate, while at the western end lies Rashtrapati Bhavan, now the president's residence, but built originally for the viceroy. It is flanked by the two large Secretariat buildings, and these three buildings sit upon a small rise, known as Raisina Hill.

India Gate
This 42 metre high stone arch of triumph stands at the eastern end of the Rajpath. It bears the name of 85000 Indian Army soldiers who died in the campaigns of WW I, the NorthWest Frontier operations of the same time and the 1919 Afghan fiasco.

Secretariat Buildings
The north and south Secretariat buildings lie either side of Rajpath on Raisina Hill. These imposing buildings, topped with chhatris (small domes), now house the ministries of Finance and External Affairs respectively.

Rashtrapati Bhavan
The official residence of the President of India stands at the opposite end of the Rajpath from India Gate. Completed in 1929, the palace-like building is a blend of Mughal and Western architectural styles.. To the west of the building is a Mughal garden which occupies 130 hectares, and this is open to the public in February.

Prior to Independence this was the viceroy's residence. At the time of Mountbatten, India's last viceroy, the number of servants needed to maintain the 340 rooms and its extensive gardens was enormous.

Sansad Bhavan
Although another large and imposing building, Sansad Bhavan, the Indian Parliament building, stands almost hidden and virtually unnoticed at the end of Sansad Marg, or Parliament Street, just north of Rajpath. The building is a circular colonnaded structure 171 metres in diameter.