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Tourist Places of Jaipur

Jaipur Tourist Places City Palace:  The City Palace is a historic landmark. The carved arches are supported by grey-white marble columns studded with floral motifs in gold and coloured stones. Two elephants carved in marble guard the entrance, where retainers whose families have served generations of rulers are at hand to serve as guides. The palace interior houses a Museum containing select collection of various types of Rajasthani dresses, a fascinating armoury of Mughal and Rajput weapons; swords of all shapes and sizes, with chased handles, some of them inlaid, enamelled, encrusted with jewels and encased in bold and magnificent scabbards. It also has an art gallery with a fine collection of paintings, carpets, royal paraphernalia and rare astronomical works in Arabic, Persian, Latin and Sanskrit, acquired by Sawai Jai Singh-II for his study of planets and their movements. Jantar Mantar:  Jantar mantar is one of Jai Singh's five remarkable observatories...
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Jaipur Monuments & Tourist Places Details

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Jaipur Monuments & Tourist Places Details Name of Monument Telephone Duration of Opening ENTRY FEE Camera Fee Indian Foreign Child Indian Foreigner Amber Fort 2530293 9.30 A.M.- 4.30 P.M. 10 50 10 Still-50 Video-100 Still-70 Video-150 City Palace 2608055 9.30 A.M.- 5.00 P.M. 35 150 25 Still-50 Video-150 Still-50 Video-150 Observatory 2610494 9.30 A.M.- 4.30 P.M. 10 1...
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Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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History of Jaipur

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History of Jaipur Jaipur, the pink city was founded in 1727 by Maharaja Jai Singh II, a Kachhwaha Rajput, who ruled from 1699-1744. Initially, his capital was Amber, which lies at a distance of 11kms from Jaipur. He felt the need of shifting his capital city with the increase in population and growing scarcity of water. Jaipur is the first planned city of India and the King took a great interest while designing this city of victory. He consulted several books on architecture and architects before making the layout of Jaipur.  After several battles with Marathas, Jai Singh was keen on the security aspect of the city. Due to this reason, he focused on his scientific and cultural interests to make a brilliant city. Being, a lover of mathematics and science, Jai Singh sought advice from Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, a Brahmin scholar of Bengal, to aid him to design the city architecture. Vidyadhar referred the ancient Indian literature on astronomy, books of Ptolemy and Euclid, an...
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Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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