Pune City Guide
Parvati Hill guides — complete visitor guide, sunrise viewpoint and Peshwa temple history.
There is a moment about two-thirds of the way up the 103 steps of Parvati Hill Pune when the city spreads out below you and you realise that what you are climbing is not just a hill with temples at the top. You are climbing the most personally significant piece of geography in Pune’s 18th-century … Read more
Parvati hill pune history is the story of a hill that the Peshwas made sacred, one temple at a time, over the course of a century. Between 1749 and the early 19th century, five temples were built at the summit — each reflecting the religious priorities of the Peshwa who commissioned it, and together forming … Read more
The parvati hill sunrise pune experience has a reputation that extends well beyond the photography community that first established it. Punekars who have been climbing these 103 steps before dawn for years describe it with a specific kind of affection — not the enthusiasm of discovery but the quieter satisfaction of a routine that is … Read more
There is a moment about two-thirds of the way up the 103 steps of Parvati Hill Pune when the city spreads out below you and you realise that what you are climbing is not just a hill with temples at the top. You are climbing the most personally significant piece of geography in Pune’s 18th-century … Read more