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City Palace - JaipurThe City Palace is an imposing blend of traditional
Rajasthani and Mughal art and architecture. The City Palace complex houses several
palatial structures.  In
the heart of the old Jaipur city, the City Palace occupies a large area divided
into a series of courtyards, gardens and buildings. Jai Singh built the outer
wall but other additions were made much later, some right up to the start of this
century. The palace is now a fine museum. It houses a remarkable collection of
textiles, paintings, manuscripts, and extraordinary weapons. On display there
are two huge urns of silver, said to be the largest silver vessels in the world.
Nakkarkhana-ka-Darwaza, the imposing gateway of the City Palace guarded by stone
elephants, is monumental. The first building in it, is Mubarak Mahal, built by
Maharaja Madho Singh. It has a beautifully carved marble gate with heavy brass
doors on either side of this gate. Beyond this gate, lies the 'Diwan-E-Khas' or
the 'Hall Of Private Audience' with a marble paved gallery. Across a paved square
lies the 'Diwan-E-Am' or the 'Hall Of Public Audience', with its intricate decorations
and manuscripts in Persian and Sanskrit. There is also a clock tower and the newer
Mubarak Mahal.
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