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Ajmer Sharif is the most revered Sufi shrine in India — the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, the 12th-century saint who founded the Chishti order.
Begun in 1592 on the hill above Maota lake, in pale sandstone and marble, and the Sheesh Mahal is what the queue is for.
Bala Quila crowns a hilltop over 1,000 feet above Alwar, a sprawling fortification some 5km long and 1.5km wide with fifteen large and fifty-one small towers…
Bhangarh is less a fort than a whole town that emptied, and the Archaeological Survey of India protects it as exactly that: an "ancient site" of fort walls…
Chittorgarh is the largest fort complex in the Indian subcontinent, spread across a fish-shaped plateau of nearly 700 acres that rises 180 metres straight out…
The Dilwara Temples at Mount Abu are a group of five exquisite Jain temples built between the 11th and 13th centuries, known for marble carving cut so thin…
Gagron is Rajasthan's great jala-durg — a water fort — standing where the Ahu meets the Kali Sindh, with rivers guarding three of its sides in place of a moat.
Hill Fort Kesroli is one of the oldest fort-hotels in India, a seven-turreted 14th-century structure built by Yaduvanshi kings on dark Hornstone Breccia rock…
Jaigarh Fort sits on Cheelka Teela — the "Hill of Eagles" — 400 metres above Amber Fort, its crimson walls visible from almost anywhere inside the Amber…
Built in 1156 by Rawal Jaisal at a crossroads of trade routes that fed into the old silk roads, and the second-oldest fort in Rajasthan.
Jalore Fort rises on a rocky hill above Jalore town in southwestern Rajasthan, known historically by the names Kanchangiri and Swarngiri ("golden hill").
Begun in 1589 and never taken, which is why the painted and gold-leaf interiors survive as well as they do.
Khejarla Fort rises directly out of granite boulders near Jodhpur, its red sandstone walls carved with latticework friezes and jharokha balconies in a style…
Khimsar Fort sits on the edge of the Thar Desert between Jodhpur and Bikaner, its heavy bastions and double-layered walls built as a purely military garrison…
Kumbhalgarh, a UNESCO-listed Mewar fort in the Aravalli Hills, is famed for its immense perimeter wall, which stretches roughly 36 km and is often called the…
Lohagarh — the "Iron Fort" — stands in Bharatpur behind a wide moat and earthen ramparts that proved harder to breach than any masonry wall.
Founded around 1459 by Rao Jodha of the Rathore clan, though most of what stands is seventeenth-century work by his successors — a hundred and twenty metres…
Rajasthan's only hill station, at 1,220 metres on a granite plateau in the Aravallis, and it exists largely because Gujarati and Rajasthani families need…
Ahhichatragarh — the "Fort of the Hooded Cobra" — spans 36 acres in Nagaur, its palaces still carrying original period furniture, objects and wall paintings…
Nahargarh Fort stands on the Aravalli ridge above Jaipur, one of three forts — with Amber and Jaigarh — built to ring and defend the city.
Neemrana Fort Palace steps down a hillside in the Aravallis in twelve tiers, a 15th-century Chauhan-dynasty fort that stood in ruin for decades after 1947…
Pushkar wraps around its lake — a natural one, and sacred — in the rugged Aravalli hills near Ajmer.
The Ranakpur Jain Temple, set in a quiet Aravalli valley, is a 15th-century marble masterpiece dedicated to Adinath, the first Tirthankara.
A tenth-century Chauhan fort standing inside the tiger reserve, founded under Sapaldaksha and added to by the kings who followed him.
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