Seemingly the entire town seems to stroll the leafy lake-hugging promenade all day; it gets especially crowded in the early evenings. But if you tear your eyes away from the lake you'll discover the promenade hides a number of statues, including a bust of Nobel Prize–winning poet Rabindranath Tagore in front of a lime tree that he planted in 1926 to mark his recovery from illness after treatment here. Diagonally opposite and closer to the lake is a disturbing memorial of a hand stretching out of the water in memory of those who drowned in the lake when the Pajtás boat sank in 1954. Additionally, two very proud statues – one a fisherman, the other a boatman – stand guard over the harbour entrance.
