Amritsar

Stadt · Punjab, 🇮🇳 Indien

Bevölkerung 1.159.227

Fläche 452 km²

Zeitzone Asia/Kolkata

Offizielle Website www.amritsarcorp.com

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Amritsar Essentials

Amritsar, the spiritual center of Sikhism, is defined by the 16th-century Golden Temple and its sacred Amrit Sarovar. The city preserves significant modern history through the Jallianwala Bagh memorial and the Partition Museum, which documents the 1947 division of India. Beyond its religious core, the city features Indo-Saracenic architecture at Khalsa College, the 18th-century Gobindgarh Fort, and the Ram Bagh gardens, home to Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s summer palace. These sites trace the city's evolution from a spiritual sanctuary to a pivotal cultural and political hub in Punjab.

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Editor's Choice

Amritsar’s historical core is defined by sites of profound cultural and political significance. This selection features the Partition Museum, which houses oral histories from the 1947 migration, and the Central Sikh Museum’s extensive portrait gallery of Gurus and warriors. The list also includes the preserved bullet marks and memorials at Jallianwala Bagh, documenting the 1919 massacre, alongside monuments honoring key figures of the Sikh Empire.

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