Doel’s Choice

Kolkata (Calcutta)


A slim selection of handcrafted wooden and leather products is available at this small boutique, located within walking distance from the Sudder St area.


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Nearby Kolkata (Calcutta) attractions

1. Indian Museum

0.15 MILES

India's biggest and oldest major museum celebrated its bicentenary in February 2014. It's mostly a lovably old-fashioned place that fills a large…

2. New Market

0.31 MILES

Marked by a distinctive red-brick clocktower, this enormous warren of market halls dates to 1874, but was substantially rebuilt after a 1980s fire. By day…

3. Clocktower

0.31 MILES

New Market has a grand colonial clocktower, but by day it's a nest of handicraft touts. Come before 8am, while the touts are sleeping, to calmly…

4. St Thomas Church

0.4 MILES

Opened in 1842, this understated Catholic church has a Doric-columned portico topped by a short octagonal spire. It was here that the body of Mother (St)…

5. Shahid Minar

0.49 MILES

Dominating the upper Maidan near Esplanade bus station, Shahid Minar is a 48m-tall round-topped hollow column commemorating martyrs of the Indian…

6. Metropolitan Building

0.54 MILES

With graceful corner towers and large window arches, the 1905 Metropolitan Building was originally the Whiteway and Laidlaw department store. It takes its…

7. WWI Cenotaph

0.54 MILES

In the northeastern corner of the Maidan, this chunky cenotaph formed of brown-stone blocks commemorates Calcuttans who fell in WWI.

8. Maidan

0.58 MILES

A vast expanse of green in the heart of the city's brick-and-mortar matrix, the Maidan is where Kolkata's residents congregate for walks, spirited cricket…