FACTS ABOUT INDORE

• India’s cleanest city. Indore has bagged this tag four times in a row.
• The gates of Lalbagh Palace, are replica of the gates of Buckingham Palace, London. They were casted in England and then shipped to Indore.
• Rajwada at Indore is the only 7 storeyed entrance of a Palace.
• 40 feet high Idol at Bada Ganapati is the largest Ganesh Idol in the world.
• Indore is the home to a unique one of its kind temple Kanch Mandir, entirely built using over hundreds and thousands of pieces of reflective glass.
• Indore is known for its breakfast. The breakfast in Indore is said to be incomplete without Poha and Jalebi. You will find numerous Poha-Jalebi shops in Indore everywhere.
• Cricket is the most lovable game in Indore. There is a square named “World cup square” and world cup statue in Indore.
• Indore has a huge concrete Cricket Bat statue with names of the players of the Indian team which won the 1971 series against Gary Sobers' West Indies team. There may not be many of its kind in the world !
• The Daly College, founded in 1870 by General Henry Daly, is one of the oldest co-educational boarding school in the world, which was established to educate the rulers of the Central Indian princely states of the ‘Marathas’ and Rajputs’.
• Indore is the only city in India to have an Indian Institute of Management and an Indian Institute of Technology, both.
• Swar Kokila Lata Mangeshkar born in Indore. Indore is also the birthplace for famour personalities like Johnny Walker, Salman Khan and Rahul Dravid.
• Great Singer & Actor Late Shri Kishor Kumar was a student of Christian College Indore.
• Cricket legends of India, Narendra Hirwani , C.K. Naidu & Mustaq Ali belong to Indore
• A massive 14 feet robotic traffic policeman that sits at the busy Barfani Dham intersection.
• The passionate traffic police cop “Ranjeet Singh” is also the center of attraction in Indore. Ranjeet is a big Fan of Late Michael Jackson. He integrated moonwalk to manage the traffic in Indore.
• India’s First Private Radio Broadcasting Channel, Radio Mirchi has started from Indore City.

Attractions In & Around Indore

Jyotirlingas

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WILDLIFE

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CUISINE

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