India’s first planned city, is a rich, prosperous, spic and span, green city rightly called “ THE CITY BEAUTIFUL , Chandigarh is a one of the Union Teritory of India.Chandigarh serves as a capital for two states i.e Punjab and Haryana.
The name Chandigarh translates from Hindi to English as "the fort of Chandi", Chandi being a Hindu Goddess.
Chandigarh is one of the numerous urban planning schemes of the famous French architect Le Corbusier.
Chandigarh has become the site of some of his greatest architectural creations. Chandigarh has had far-reaching impact, ushering in a modern idiom of architecture and city planning all over India and has become a symbol of planned urbanism.
Chandigarh is composed of sectors. Each sector is 800 meters by 1,200 meters, enclosed by roads allocated to fast mechanised transport and sealed to direct access from the houses.
Chandigarh is a rare epitome of modernization co-existing with nature's preservation.
Serenity and a city are two diametrically opposite concepts, which however, get belied in the 'City Beautiful'.