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Sep 7

Lodi Gardens is a historic park spread over 90 acres in the heart of New Delhi. Lodi Gardens has historical monuments built during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Then there is a great park with spread out lawns, trees, plants and flowers. Visiting Lodhi Gardens can be a unique way of experiencing history and nature. It is also one of the finest places for taking a morning walk.

Lodi Gardens was landscaped by Lady Willingdon in 1936. Lady Willingdon was the wife of Marquess of Willingdon, Governor-General of India during the British Raj at that time. It was re-landscaped by American landscape architects Joseph Allen Stein and Garrett Eckbo in 1968.

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