The Bandstand Promenade, also known as Bandra Bandstand is a 1.2 kilometer long walkway along the sea on the western coast of

Mumbai, India Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial centre, financial capital and the list of cities i ...

in the neighborhood of Bandra. It is simultaneously a popular hangout spot, a jogging track and a park. Towards the Land's End side of the promenade is an amphitheater. It serves as a venue for the Mumbai Festival, Celebrate Bandra and other events including concerts, classical dance and other performances. The 'Artist's Court' is another performance venue built into the promenade that witnesses public

Jam session A jam session is a relatively informal musical event, process, or activity where musicians, typically instrumentalists, play improvised solos and vamp over tunes, drones, songs, and chord progressions. To "jam" is to improvise music without ...

s on Sundays.

Other attractions

Bandra fort

Bandra Fort is located right at the end of road adjacent to Hotel Taj Land's End. It was built by the Portuguese in 1640 as a watchtower overlooking Mahim Bay, the

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and the southern island of Mahim. Castella de Aguada has been featured in several Hindi films, such as '' Dil Chahta Hai'', '' Buddha Mil Gaya'' and '' Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na''.

Bandra Sea Link

The Bandra–Worli Sea Link (BWSL), officially the Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link, is a

cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which wire rope, cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or wikt:stay#Etymology 3, stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, norm ...

with pre-stressed concrete

viaduct A viaduct is a specific type of bridge that consists of a series of arches, piers or columns supporting a long elevated railway or road. Typically a viaduct connects two points of roughly equal elevation, allowing direct overpass across a wide ...

approaches, which links Bandra in West

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with

Worli Worli (ISO 15919, ISO: ''Varaḷī'', Help:IPA/Marathi, �əɾ(ə)ɭiː is a locality in central Mumbai in Maharashtra, India. It is one of the four peninsulas of Mumbai with the others being Colaba, Bandra and Malabar Hill. The sea connect ...

and Nariman Point, and is the first phase of the proposed West Island Freeway system. The Sea Link reduces travel time between Bandra and Worli from 45 to 60 minutes to 7 minutes. The link has an average traffic of around 37,500 vehicles per day.

Mount Mary Church

The Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount, more commonly known as Mount Mary Church, is considered to be one of the oldest in the city of

. The church stands on a hillock, about 80 metres above sea level off

Bandstand A bandstand (sometimes music kiosk) is a circular, semicircular or polygonal structure set in a park, garden, pier, or indoor space, designed to accommodate musical bands performing concerts. A simple construction, it both creates an ornamen ...

overlooking the

. It draws

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s of devotees and pilgrims annually.

Walk of the Stars

The Walk of the Stars is a section of the Bandstand Promenade honoring Bollywood film stars. The path features about six statues of famous

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actors as well as about 100

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plates embossed with the handprints and signatures of other stars. The walk was inspired by the

Hollywood Walk of Fame The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a landmark which consists of 2,813 five-pointed terrazzo-and-brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in the Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood dist ...

. It is funded and privately managed by UTV and promoted through their UTV Stars television channel. As of December 2014, the walk with the stars section of the promenade has been removed.

Gallery

File:MumbaiClimate.jpg, Sunset at bandstand File:Mount Mary Church (Bombay).jpg, Mount Mary Church, Bandstand Promenade, Bandra File:Castella de Aguada 3.jpg, Castella de Aguada, also known as the Bandra Fort File:Castella de Aguada 11.jpg, Castella de Aguada, a watchtower overlooking Mahim Bay, the

and the southern island of Mahim File:Kadeshwari Devi Temple Bandra Bandstand.jpg, Kadeshwari Devi Temple Bandra

References

External links

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