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The Empress Garden lies adjacent to the Pune Solapur Road. This is a rather large garden, covering an area of about 59 acres. Empress Garden of Pune is basically a botanical park, which is located near the Pune Race course. Here there are several varieties of fruit and flower comportment trees. People often turn up in large numbers for a picnic at the Empress Garden of Pune.

When Queen Victoria won the title of 'Empress Of India', this garden was named after her as the 'Empress Garden'. Its popular epithet, that is the 'Soldiers Garden', came into being for the reason that the British Soldiers frequented it for amusement. No history can be obtained for the period between 1845 and 1892 regarding facts such as how and when it came into the control of the Bombay Government, who in 1892 delegated power to the Agri-Horicultural society of western India.

Well known locally as the 'Soldiers' Garden', the Empress Garden at Pune was initially the property of a certain Sardar Vithalrao Purandhare which was managed by a General Finjer. In 1838, it came into the possession of the Government. In 1845, it came into the hands of Sir Charles Napier and came to be known as the 'Garden of Dr. Don'.