Buildings
City Palace and Lake Pichola, Udaipur
Udaipur, Rajasthan
Udaipur, the 'City of Lakes', is built around Lake Pichola, with the huge City Palace rising from its shore and the Lake Palace hotel floating in the…
Buildings in India
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Tsuglagkhang Complex, McLeod Ganj
Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh
The main temple of the Tibetan community in exile, next to the residence of the Dalai Lama, in McLeod Ganj above Dharamsala.
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Hawa Mahal and City Palace, Jaipur
Jaipur, Rajasthan
The Hawa Mahal, 'Palace of Winds', is a five-storey pink sandstone façade honeycombed with 953 small windows, built in 1799 so royal women could watc…
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Mysore Palace
Mysuru, Karnataka
The opulent palace of the Wadiyar maharajas, built in 1912 in Indo-Saracenic style, with stained glass, mosaics and carved doors.
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Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim
Gangtok, Sikkim
The largest monastery in Sikkim and the main seat in exile of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Victoria Memorial, Kolkata
Kolkata, West Bengal
A grand white marble building of 1921 in memory of Queen Victoria, set in gardens, with a museum of the British period and the history of Kolkata.