Prinsep Ghat

Prinsep Ghat is a riverside promenade and bathing landing on the eastern bank of the Hooghly in Kolkata, built in the 1840s and named after the scholar and antiquarian James Prinsep. Its centrepiece is a Palladian memorial pavilion with tall columns, set beside steps that descend to the water. The ghat lies beneath the modern span of the Vidyasagar Setu, whose cables rise nearby. Visitors gather along the restored walkway in the evening, taking boat rides on the river and photographing the colonnaded monument against the bridge and the sunset.