Gardens & Parks

Chhatra Vilas Garden (Chhatra Bilas)

A leafy old royal garden in the middle of the city

🗺 Kota City 📍 2 km from Kota ⭐ Historic royal city garden

Chhatra Vilas Garden, often spelled Chhatra Bilas, is one of Kota's older public gardens, a green, shaded retreat right in the city. Laid out in the royal tradition, it combines formal planting with fountains, pavilions and memorial structures, giving it a gentle, old-world charm.

It is a favourite with local families for morning walks and lazy afternoons, and children enjoy the open spaces and the small animal enclosures that have long been associated with the garden. The mature trees make it a cool, pleasant escape even when the city is hot.

Easy to reach and free to enjoy, Chhatra Vilas is a relaxed, everyday sort of attraction, a good place to slow down between Kota's bigger sights.

History of Chhatra Vilas Garden (Chhatra Bilas)

Chhatra Vilas Garden was developed as a royal garden by the Kota rulers, part of the tradition of laying out formal pleasure gardens around the capital.

Over time it passed into public use and became one of the city's established green spaces, complete with fountains, walkways and a small menagerie.

It remains a much-used civic garden, valued as much for its shade and history as for its role as a family recreation spot.

Story & Legend

Long-time visitors like to say that the garden's oldest trees were planted in the rulers' own time, and that resting in their shade brings the same calm the royal family once sought here.