Expatriate Forums in India

Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, is well-known as the Pink City. And the magnificent City Palace is of course one of main highlights of Jaipur tour. One can explore all the aspects of royal family of Rajasthan by visiting the City Palace. It has huge courtyard, gardens, buildings built in Rajasthani and Mughal style of architecture. Also you can see the museum, art gallery, and old Indian weapons inside the City Palace.

The palace interior houses a Museum containing select collection of various types of Rajasthani dresses, a fascinating armory of Mughal and Rajput weapons; swords of all shapes and sizes, with chased handles, some of them inlaid, enameled, 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.