Forts, palaces, monuments and old quarters that carry the story of a place.
5 places · showing 1–5
1
A hillside palace-fort of pale yellow and pink sandstone above Maota Lake, with a mirrored hall that lights up from a single candle.
2
The 1799 'palace of winds' — a five-storey screen of 953 latticed windows built so royal women could watch the street unseen.
3
The working royal residence at the centre of the old city, part museum, part private home, with textile and armoury collections and four…
4
Sawai Jai Singh II's open-air observatory of nineteen masonry instruments, including the world's largest stone sundial, accurate to two…
5
A symmetrical 16th-century stepwell near Amber with criss-crossing staircases on all four sides — small, free and startlingly photogenic.