An Overview About Pune

You must have come across many a business honcho or engineering professional or simply a postgraduate uttering about Pune, the place where they have attained their professional degree. There are a number of institutes in this city. The historical significance about Pune is it being home to the great Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the founder of the Maratha Empire who lived here as a young boy. The city became an important political centre as the seat of the Peshwa and later emerged as the monsoon capital of the Bombay Presidency until independence of the country.

Shopping in Pune and dining in the restaurants in Pune can be great fun if you know where to go right. To know about Pune in these aspects, visit a travel site. For flights and hotel reservations, you can bank upon Zoomtra.com.

Few of the Restaurants in Pune worth the visit are Food Link (ICC Senapati Bapat Road), Shraavan (F. C. Road), Kiva's Tiffins ( Kamla Nehru Park), Siiip (Prabhat Road) and the list goes on. For shopping in Pune, the best places are Laxmi Road, Dhole Patil Road, Koregaon Park, Fergusson College besides the malls and plazas in the various locations.