Forts, palaces, monuments and old quarters that carry the story of a place.
56 places
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The walled garden where British troops fired on a trapped, unarmed crowd in April 1919, killing…
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The restored wind-tower quarter of old Dubai, with courtyard houses, small museums and an abra crossing…
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A two-kilometre loop through Dutch cemeteries, Portuguese houses, spice warehouses, colonial bungalows…
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The administrative and residential quarter: an Indo-Islamic pavilion, eleven domed elephant stables and…
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The 1888 Victorian Gothic railway station, a UNESCO site, still handling three million commuters a day.
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Where the Buddha preached his first sermon: the Dhamek Stupa, an Ashokan pillar site, monasteries from…
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The colonnaded street in front of Virupaksha, with a hill of small pre-Vijayanagara shrines above it…
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Sawai Jai Singh II's open-air observatory of nineteen masonry instruments, including the world's…
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The old royal square in the middle of the city, with the Kumari's house, Hanuman Dhoka palace and…
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Built in 1568 and the oldest active synagogue in the Commonwealth, with hand-painted Cantonese floor…
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Akbar's purpose-built capital, abandoned after fourteen years and preserved almost intact — the most…
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The Latin Quarter of the capital: narrow lanes of ochre, blue and green Portuguese houses with azulejo…
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Five interconnected mansions built by a brocade trading family in the 1800s, with the most intricate…
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The abandoned Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ashram where the Beatles wrote much of the White Album in 1968, now…
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Thirty domed tombs of the Qutb Shahi sultans in a landscaped necropolis, restored over the past decade…
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The Nizams' ceremonial palace of four courtyards, with a Belgian-chandeliered durbar hall and a vintage…
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A white marble cenotaph of 1899 beside a small lake, thin enough in places for sunlight to glow through…
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A complete 1268 Hoysala temple on a star-shaped plan, covered in bands of carving so fine they look…
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The 1636 palace of the Nayak ruler, with a colonnaded courtyard of 25-metre columns and a nightly sound…
A 42-metre war memorial arch at the end of the ceremonial avenue, best seen after dark when the whole…
A 1612 Portuguese sea fort above the mouth of the Mandovi, with a working lighthouse and views over…
A Tudor-revival palace of 1878 modelled on Windsor Castle, still owned by the Mysore royal family and…
A nine-storey 17th-century royal palace above the old town, modelled on the Potala and now partly…
A large 1534 temple complex in a natural amphitheatre between two hills, with a long ruined market…