This jaw-dropping mansion is a throwback to the Raj era and the wealth of zamindars. Made purely with Italian marble in 1835, the Marble Palace was the residence of one of the richest merchants and landlords of Bengal— Raja Rajendra Mullick Bahadur. The palace is like a hotchpotch museum of art objects and paraphernalia collected over years. Check out the marble flooring and wall panels, the Belgian glass mirrors. the five enormous halls, and the over 70 rare artworks brought in 1830 all the way from Italy and Belgium including busts of Greece’s gods — Praxiteles to Phidias, Venus to Apollo, Homer to Diana.
You need a permit from the West Bengal State Tourism Department to get in, which is not really a problem.
