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Bhadra Fort is the citadel at Ahmedabad's founding core, cited by UNESCO's own inscription of the Historic City of Ahmadabad as part of the sultanate-era…
Bharuch's fort overlooks the Narmada river at one of the oldest continuously inhabited port sites in India — known to the ancient Greco-Roman world as Barygaza.
Bhujia Fort caps the hill that gives Bhuj its name, a defensive outwork raised to guard the Kutch capital below.
The Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park in Gujarat is a UNESCO World Heritage Site blending a hill of ancient Hindu and Jain temples on Pavagadh with the…
A rocky coastal retreat that once served as the summer residence of the Nawab of Junagadh, featuring the historic Darya Mahal palace.
Dabhoi's fortifications are best known for their four carved gates — Hira Bhagol, Nandodi Bhagol, Vadodari Bhagol and Mahudi Bhagol — each a multi-storied…
Dakor is a temple town in the Kheda district of central Gujarat, built around the Ranchhodraiji Temple and the stone-stepped Gomti Lake.
A historic black-sand beach where Mahatma Gandhi concluded the famous 1930 Salt March, complete with a national memorial museum.
Dholavira, on the arid Khadir island in Gujarat's Rann of Kutch, is one of the largest and best-preserved cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation…
Dwarka is an ancient holy city on the westernmost tip of the Saurashtra peninsula, revered as the legendary ocean kingdom of Lord Krishna and a core part of…
Girnar, a sacred volcanic massif near Junagadh, is a major pilgrimage for both Jains and Hindus.
Gondal is a royal town in the Rajkot district of Saurashtra that has kept most of what it had.
Idar Hill rises out of the Sabarkantha district of North Gujarat, a rough mass of pink granite boulders balanced one on top of another.
Kanthkot's hilltop fortifications, largely dismantled by the British in 1816, now frame a cluster of temples spanning several religious traditions — a domed…
Lakhpat's fort walls run for kilometres along the edge of the Great Rann of Kutch, enclosing what was once a thriving 18th-century trading port and is now…
Famous for golden sands, windmills along the shore, and the nearby Vijay Vilas Palace. Visitors enjoy camel rides, water sports, and sunset views.
Mandvi's old fort walls and bastions still trace parts of the port town Rao Khengarji I founded on the Rukmavati river — a harbour that once launched a fleet…
Palitana, in Gujarat's Saurashtra, is one of Jainism's most sacred sites — the Shatrunjaya hill is crowned by an astonishing cluster of over 800 intricately…
Patan is an ancient fortified town that stood as the capital of Gujarat's medieval Solanki kings.
Pavagadh Hill is a volcanic plateau rising about 822 metres from the plains of the Panchmahal district, at the heart of the UNESCO-listed Champaner-Pavagadh…
Roha Fort stands 500 feet up and 800 feet above sea level on Kutch's Nakhatrana plateau, built as the administrative seat for a jagir of some 52 villages.
Shamlaji is a temple town in the Aravalli foothills of north-eastern Gujarat, on the banks of the Meshwo River near the Rajasthan border.
Shatrunjaya Hill rises above the Shatrunjaya River near Palitana town in Bhavnagar district, and no other mountain in the world carries anything like what…
Somnath is an ancient coastal temple town, and its temple is revered as the very first of the twelve sacred Jyotirlinga shrines of Lord Shiva.
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