Lavasa free india's largest hill city is merely within 50 KMs from Pune and located between 2500 - 3000 ft above sea level around the 20km backwaters of the Varasgaon Dam. Though, the entire area is dotted with construction activity today, first phase at Dasve is expected to be complete by 2010 & subsequently, entire project will be ready only by 2021. A very big vision and on such a grand scale!
Lavasa will be a planned hill township located on 25000 acres of land (100 sq KMs), which is as big as Paris city in total area and will house 2,00,000 people (permanent residents) and cater to 20,00,000 tourists annually when complete. It will have everything - Water front apartments, Villas, 5-star hotels, economy hotels, restaurants, educational institutions, post graduate education like - executive MBAs, Hotel Management institutes, Golf course, Clubs, spas, adventure sports, shopping malls, landscaped gardens, watersports and many many more.
