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Mumbai's most popular and plush locality - Queen's Necklace

The locality gets the name Queen's Necklace for the view it creates at night from an elevated point resembling like a necklace with 'a string of pearls.'

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Almost every tourist who visits Mumbai visits the popular Marine Drive, which is fondly known as the Queen's Necklace. This iconic place has a 3.6-kilometre-long Promenade along the road, and was constructed by eminent philanthropist Bhagojisheth Keer and Pallonji Mistry.

Marine Drive is a 'C'-shaped concrete road along the sea, giving the city a perfect skyline. The nothern end of this localit is the Girgaon Chowpatty which links to the Nariman Point at southern tip, further to Babulnath and Malabar Hill.

The locality gets the name Queen's Necklace for the view it creates at night from an elevated point resembling like a necklace with 'a string of pearls.' Mumbaikars know this locality as Marine Drive, but the road is named after the freedom figher Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

Marine Drive is visited by thousands of people every day and is popular for the promenade which is lined with palm trees. The road extends further down to the plush Walkeshwar, where the Governor of Maharashtra resides.

As per history, the locality was populated with Parsis who constructed the buildings in an art deco style famous in the early 1900s. Buildings like the Kapur Mahal, Zaver Mahal and Keval Mahal are built on the basis of this architecture, and were erected in the late 1930s, then at a cost of over 1 million rupees. The locality today is among the plush areas with high real estate prices.

Marine Drive is also known for its five-star hotels like the Oberoi, Trident, The Intercontinental, Hotel Marine Plaza, Sea Green Hotel and others. Besides this, several members-only sports clubs are also situated here, some of which include Cricket Club of India, Mumbai Police Gymkhana, P. J. Hindu Gymkhana and Islam Gymkhana.

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