Male: Built in 1592, Amber Fort is a citadel of Mogul and Hindu architecture and the most significant landmark in the dessert hills of Rajasthan near Jaipur, the capital. Jaipur is southwest of New Delhi a little over 100 miles in northwestern India.
Magnificent, classic, romantic are terms often used here described the amber palace all of which pay in the reality of this monument to the ancient royalty of India. Travel by elephant, once reserved for Maharaja’s, Raja’s and their guest has become a traditional passage to the Fort for visitors. The dazzled Indian elephants need to make only six trips to the castle and they retire for the day.
Ratan Jit Nathawat: This is called as Amber Fort Palace. From outside when you look at it, it appears like a Fort. But inside, you’ll find it is just like a palace. It was a residential palace of the king of Amber. They were residing over here from 16th Century to 1727 and after that they shifted from here so these are completely abandoned for the next 300 years. It was only in 1947 when India got independence and in 1952 these building became part of the government and then they were opened to the public.
But the dynasty was still ruling so nobody came and destroy them for they were in good shape. Beyond this entrance, very few man who are allowed to go because there are ladies—the threshold and the wall have been done with specific technique and this technique, the artist plaster the whole surface first. The moment he can work in one certain time and then again plastered. The drawing is drawn and the colors are put. And when the plaster got dried up, the colors get fixed.
Male: Visible from the castle, the old village of Amber was abandoned in 1731 when Maharajah Singh finished the new city and palace at Jaipur. The formidable walls of the great castle were then ineffective once gun powder came on the see plus an increasing need for water in order to move.
Ratan Jit Nathawat: The Lake Palace, it was used by the royal family during summers because summers are very hot over here and in those time there was no air condition system like this day especially June and April two months, they’re over here because here, if the temperature goes up to more than 40 degrees.
Male: Jaipur City Palace is now divided into a museum open to the public and the residence of the descendents of the Maharajah.
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