Sunder Nursery
Sixteenth-century Mughal garden enclosing six UNESCO-listed tombs, restored as a public arboretum.
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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.
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