India — President House of India, New Delhi, Delhi, India
<p>The President’s Estate is located near the Secretariat Buildings and consists of 350 acres of land shaped like a crescent.</p>
<p>A nearby information board said the estate “<em>is sited on the most important vista of New Delhi, the Central Vista connecting the Ridge to Purana Oila and the River Yamuna</em>.” From where I stood at the amazingly ornate entrance gates, I could not see anything of the beautiful views.</p>
<p>Edwin Lutyens of India Gate (इंडिया गेट) fame designed the President’s Estate. Again, the information board told me that: “<em>The core of the estate comprises of the Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Mughal Garden, which in a sense forms a whole, with the rest of the estate — the courts, stables, etc., spreading out around it. In the estate, Lutyens planned a variety of housing. In fact the only bungalows in Delhi designed by Lutyens himself are within the estate.</em>”</p>
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