The Craft Village of Chandigarh - Kalagram

Chandigarh, also known as the city beautiful, offers many tourist places which are simply mesmerizing to its audience and hence completely justifies the title given to it. It has museums for the art lovers, parks, gardens, and lake for the nature lovers, shopping complexes and malls for shopaholics and list can just go on and on. A person who once visits Chandigarh starts connecting himself to the city beautiful. The complete city is so well planned and every unit of the city is systematically divided into sectors. It is so beautifully and systematically built that one can hardly get lost in the city. The city has something for everyone who visits or stays here. One such beautiful gift of craft and tradition, which the city beautiful has for us is "Kalagram''

Kalagram Chandigarh is one of the most beautifully built craft villages which holds one of the biggest craft fairs for all the art lovers, every year. It is situated in on the primary street connecting Chandigarh with Panchkula. Kalagram is a center point of Tourism and Cultural exercises. Manimajra, Chandigarh and also holds a restaurant for all the food lovers. The Chokhi Dhani Group initiated the Kalagram project to encourage managed business for skilled workers and to give true painstaking work at the most sensible cost to the shopper. Actually, Kalagram is most legitimate retail handiwork town at Jaipur where more than 10,000 expressions and specialties of Incredible India are accessible to you. Here you can discover the superior Art and Crafts of India which has rich genealogy and differing qualities in its workmanship be it through its way of life, dress, stylistic layout, design, home-outfitting or simply the everyday embellishments. Start your shopping jamboree at Kalagram, the craftsman's town. You will likewise see a Gaushala/haven at Kalagram giving sanctuary to cows.

Attractions at Kalagram are as follows:

Baithak

Baithak Restaurant is an ethnic Punjabi style restaurant which offers almost every kind Punjabi cuisine. CITCO oversees this restaurant and takes care of this. With 54 covers inside and 46 covers outside, Baithak is the sterling restaurant having beautifully bordered verandah and machans. The main cuisines which awaken your taste buds include Tandoori Choosa, Rang birangi seekh, Paneer Tikka Tawa masala and keema nan with Kheer. Amritsari Food Festival forms the main attraction for all the food lovers across the Tricity.

Glassy Bar

Another one of the attractions in Kalagram is the Glassy Bar which is a traditional Punjabi style Bar with extraordinary lightings and DJ framework to make various theme parties and other get-togethers more happening.

Citco Da Vehra

“Citco Da Vehra” is as a customary Punjabi Haveli having a Courtyard with decorations all around. The beautiful Punjabi styled structures and mirror embellishments along with the Punjabi themes in the Courtyard enhance the overall climate of the Vehra giving it a rich look to a simple Punjabi Province. The light of Punjabi reflected fine art in and around BaithakKalagram charms the guests.

Virasat Museum

The last but not the least is the Virasat Museum which is the exhibition hall, is a potpourri of relics and work of art of the area including Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh and it has been set up inside the Baithak, Kalagram Complex. It is a focal point of fascination for the guests. The utensils, gems, ceramics, work of art, old articles and different materials like cultivating instruments, Charkha (Spinning Wheel) and so forth have been shown in the exhibition hall. Sanjhi Mata, which is adored amid Navrataras in the country territories of this locale has additionally been made with mud to instruct the new era about the antiquated culture and the materials/articles being utilized as a part of the rustic zone of this district.

All in all, Kalagram has left no stone unturned to attract the art and food lovers. 

So whenever in Chandigarh, do not forget to visit this beautiful and ethnic place and relish all the cultures of Punjab.