Sunder Nursery

This guide to Sunder Nursery in Delhi opens with the highway that nearly flattened it: a seventy-metre road planned to cut through Mughal-era tombs and five thousand trees before conservationists raced to stop it. It follows the site's path from a sixteenth-century garden the Mughals called Bagh-e-Azeem through its use as a British plant nursery to a decade-long restoration that uncovered six UNESCO-listed monuments. Look for the recreated Quranic calligraphy inside the Sunder Burj near the entrance.