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Places of tourist attraction around Asansol???????


Can someone suggest me some places of tourist attraction, especially religious tourism, around Asansol near Calcutta?
We need to go there frequently, and evertytime we go to Maithon for seeing Goddess Kalyaneshwari and holidaying at the Majumdar Niwas. We wantto go somewhere else next time.

Asansol (Bengali: 唳嗋Ω唳距Θ唳膏唳?, a coal-mining-industrial centre, is the second largest city [1] in West Bengal, after Kolkata. It is a sub-division located in Bardhaman District, in the western periphery of the state.

Churulia - here the famous poet - Kazi Nazrul Islam was born. He is considered the national poet of Bangladesh. The village is about 17 km from Asansol, and contains a museum with his works and a memorial for him.
Santiniketan - Visva-Bharati, founded by Rabindranath Tagore and now a central university and an institution of national importance, is located here. It is about 90 km from Asansol.
Durgapur - An industrial city 50 km to the east of Asansol and home to the Durgapur Steel Plant
Bishnupur - the famous terracota temple town and home to major art and craft is about 100 km from Asansol. The Bankura horse, symbol of Indian handicrafts is produced at Panchmura, near Vishnupur. It is also the home of the Baluchari sari, initially woven with Ramayana and Mahabharata motifs but now modernised.
Kalyaneswari Temple 鈥?The temple of the Lady of Fulfilment, about 20 km from Asansol has been a place of pilgrimage, particularly for barren women, for about five centuries.
Joydeb-Kenduli 鈥?temple and birthplace of Sanskrit poet Joydeb, on the banks of the Ajay river, is about 80 km from Asansol. Makar sankranti mela with bauls (religious singers with a detached philosohy and spontanaeity of their own) participating is held in mid January.
Bakreshwar 鈥?hot spring and temple is about 70 km from Asanasol.
Joychandi Pahar 鈥?popular picnic spot and centre for rock climbing training, is about 30 km from Asansol.

mr. veerbhadra , thanx you have given very good detail of the locality nearing Asansol.
Can i have some more details of tourist intrest places ex. kolkatta.please send at sunnyglobus@yahoo.co.in , i would be highly thankful to you. Report It

Goa is a good place for tourist.

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