Park Street
#4sur 10 lieux à visiter à KolkataKolkata, Bengale-Occidental
Aussi appelé Mother Teresa Sarani · Food Street
L'essentiel
Horaires d'ouverture : Open at all hours. L'entrée est gratuite. Comptez 1.5 hrs. Meilleure période : 17:00 – 19:00.
Mis à jour le · Rédigé par Traveliac, avec assistance IA · 5 min de lecture
- Horaires d'ouverture
- Open 24h
- The street itself never closes; its dining and nightlife are busiest 19:00–23:30. South Park Street Cemetery, at the other end of the day, opens 09:00–16:30.
- Prix d'entrée
- Gratuit
- Durée nécessaire
- 1.5 hrs
- Meilleur moment de la journée
- 17:00 – 19:00
- Meilleurs mois
- Oct – Mar
- Adresse
- Park Street (officially Mother Teresa Sarani), Kolkata, West Bengal 700016
À propos de Park Street
Park Street runs roughly one kilometre from the Maidan to Park Circus and carries the official name Mother Teresa Sarani since 2003, though almost no Kolkata resident uses it in conversation. The street was laid out in the late 18th century as Burial Ground Road, named for the cluster of European cemeteries that once stood where restaurants and offices now sit, and it takes its more familiar name from a deer park kept by Sir Elijah Impey, the only resident of the area at the time and Chief Justice of Bengal's Supreme Court. Today Park Street functions as Kolkata's densest concentration of restaurants, bars, and colonial-era institutions in a single half-kilometre stretch, anchored at its Maidan end by South Park Street Cemetery, whose 1,600 to 1,700 graves behind a low brick wall sit metres from the city's busiest dinner tables — a juxtaposition the street has never bothered to soften.
Meilleur moment de la journée : 17:00 – 19:00. For the cemetery in soft evening light before its 16:30 gate closes if arriving slightly earlier, or 20:00 onward for the restaurant strip once the dinner crowd builds.
Photographie
₹30 pour la caméra
Horaires de Park Street
- Horaires d'ouverture
- Open 24h
Mon–Sun 00:00–23:59 - The street itself never closes; its dining and nightlife are busiest 19:00–23:30. South Park Street Cemetery, at the other end of the day, opens 09:00–16:30.
- Fermé le
- Ouvert tous les jours
Bon à savoir : Christmas and New Year's Eve (mid-December to 1 January) bring extended illumination and a street carnival atmosphere along the full stretch, with restaurants and bars running past normal closing hours.
Horaires d'ouverture établis à partir de wbtourism.gov.in et de sources publiques, mis à jour le . Ils peuvent changer sans préavis — vérifiez avant de partir. Comment nous rédigeons ces guides
Prix d'entrée de Park Street
| Billet | Prix |
|---|---|
| Visiteurs indiens | Gratuit |
| Visiteurs étrangers | Gratuit |
| Enfants | Gratuit |
| Caméra | ₹30 |
Park Street itself has no admission fee. The adjoining South Park Street Cemetery charges no entry fee either but requests a modest camera donation of roughly ₹30 at the caretaker's register; as of 2026, verify at the gate since the cemetery is run by a small trust with limited signage.
Tarifs établis à partir de wbtourism.gov.in et de sources publiques, mis à jour le . Ils peuvent changer sans préavis — vérifiez avant de partir. Comment nous rédigeons ces guides
Meilleure période pour visiter Park Street
- Quiet
- Moderate
- Busy
- Very busy
09:00 – 12:00
Cemetery MorningBest time to go
South Park Street Cemetery sees only a handful of visitors; the restaurant strip is largely closed or preparing for lunch service.
Quiet13:00 – 16:00
Lunch and Shopping
Office workers and shoppers fill lunch spots; cemetery visits should be timed before its 16:30 closing.
Moderate19:00 – 22:00
Dinner Peak
Restaurant strip at its busiest; reservations at established names like Peter Cat or Mocambo are advisable on weekends.
BusyDecember Evenings
Christmas Illumination
The full street fills with families for the Park Street Carnival and Christmas lights; vehicle access is periodically restricted.
Very busy
Histoire de Park Street
European Calcutta buried its dead outside the fortified town's boundary through the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and South Park Street Cemetery, consecrated in 1767, became the principal burial ground for the East India Company's merchants, soldiers, and their families during a period when Calcutta's climate and diseases claimed European lives at a rate that made elaborate funerary monuments a visible, ongoing civic project. The obelisks, pyramids, and Gothic spires crowded into the cemetery's grounds reflect the wealth and anxiety of a colonial merchant class that frequently did not survive a first decade in Bengal. As the East India Company's civil and military presence expanded through the 19th century, the area around the cemetery filled in with residences and, later, commercial premises, and the street's identity shifted from a burial district to a fashionable address. Flurys, the Swiss-founded confectionery and tea room that opened on Park Street in 1927, became the emblem of that transition — a genteel European institution serving a British and Anglo-Indian clientele that by the mid-20th century had given way to Kolkata's own professional class as the street's core customer base. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation renamed the street Mother Teresa Sarani in 2003, honouring the Missionaries of Charity founder's work in the city, though the change has had negligible effect on everyday usage.
Règles et étiquette à Park Street
South Park Street Cemetery closes its gate at 16:30 and does not admit visitors after dark, a rule enforced without exception given the site's fragile 18th-century brick and stucco monuments. Walking on or climbing the monuments themselves is prohibited, and staff on site will intervene directly if visitors approach too closely for a photograph. Along the restaurant strip, touts offering to guide diners to a "better" restaurant than the one they were heading toward are a fixture on weekend evenings and are best declined outright, since the recommendation usually comes with an undisclosed commission built into the bill. Street parking is scarce and informally managed by attendants who expect a small tip regardless of whether a formal fee applies; agreeing to a price before leaving the vehicle avoids a dispute on return. During the Christmas–New Year period, the street becomes pedestrian-heavy enough that vehicle access is periodically restricted by police barricades, and walking is the only reliable way to move along the strip after 20:00.
Conseils pour visiter Park Street
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Visit South Park Street Cemetery before the restaurant crowd builds — the site is genuinely peaceful in late afternoon and offers a level of quiet, unhurried access to 18th-century funerary architecture that few other Kolkata sites match, all a five-minute walk from Park Street's busiest corner. Flurys remains the reliable choice for a proper breakfast or afternoon tea rather than dinner, where newer and more fashionable Park Street restaurants tend to draw the evening crowd; Peter Cat's chelo kebab is the dish locals recommend to first-time visitors more than any other single item on the strip. December is the single best month to experience the street's character in full: illuminated arches run its length, and the Park Street Carnival draws Kolkata families out in numbers rarely seen the rest of the year. Park Street Metro Station sits directly on the street, making this one of the few Kolkata destinations where arriving by metro drops a visitor exactly where they need to be rather than a walk away.
Comment se rendre à Park Street
Nous n'avons pas encore localisé Park Street avec précision ; la carte montre les autres lieux de notre guide Kolkata. Utilisez l'adresse ci-dessous ou le lien d'itinéraire.
Park Street (officially Mother Teresa Sarani), Kolkata, West Bengal 700016Itinéraire sur Google Maps
Depuis Park Street Metro Station (Blue Line)
₹20–₹300 km · 0–2 min
Metro fare from Esplanade or Kalighat
Depuis Indian Museum / Chowringhee Road
0.6 km · 8–10 min
Free (walk)
Depuis Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport
₹400–₹60016 km · 40–60 min
Aéroport le plus proche
Depuis Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (CCU)
16 km, approximately 40–60 minutes.
Gare la plus proche
Depuis Park Street Metro Station (Blue Line)
on the street itself.
FAQ — Park Street
Is there an entry fee to walk along Park Street?
No. Park Street is a public road with no admission charge. South Park Street Cemetery at its Maidan end is also free, though a modest camera donation of around ₹30 is customary at the caretaker's register.
What is Park Street's official name today?
Mother Teresa Sarani, a name the Kolkata Municipal Corporation assigned in 2003. Almost no resident uses it in everyday conversation, and taxi drivers and maps alike still default to Park Street.
Is South Park Street Cemetery open in the evening?
No. The cemetery closes its gate at 16:30 daily and does not admit visitors after dark, a rule enforced to protect its fragile 18th-century brick monuments.
When is the best time of year to visit Park Street?
December, unequivocally. The mid-month-to-New-Year period brings illuminated arches along the full street and the Park Street Carnival, when Kolkata families turn out in numbers far exceeding any other season.
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