The Rose Garden holds historic significance—it is Asia’s largest, spread across 40 acres. Chandigarh became a Union Territory in 1966, and the very next year, in 1967, work on this garden began.

The much-anticipated 53rd Rose Festival is set to kick off at the Zakir Rose Garden, Sector 16, in Chandigarh on Friday. The three-day festival, organised by the Chandigarh municipal corporation ...

The garden is also touted as Asia’s largest rose garden; it is spread over an area of over 30 acres, having 50,000 rose bushes in 1,600 species of rose, the highlight being the rare ones.

Ramkrishan Upadhyay Tribune News Service Chandigarh, October 22 The Rose Garden, one of the most important tourist spots in the city, has been facing the official apathy for long, resulting i ...

A total of 829 varieties of roses and nearly 50,000 rose plants in ... Festival is set to kick off at the Zakir Rose Garden, Sector 16, in Chandigarh on ... time in history, ...