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Reloj de sol, anillo suspendido entre los dos hemisferios enterrados
¿Qué lo hace tan especial? Para empezar, es uno de los observatorios solares más grandes del mundo que aún hoy en día se utiliza. No es propiamente un edificio, sino un gran patio repleto de diversas construcciones que a primera vista parecen extravagantes esculturas, pero que resultan ser instrumentos de gran precisión para el estudio del firmamento. Las más reconocibles son los gigantescos relojes de sol, que conviven con astrolabios de hasta dos metros de diámetro. Pero en Jantar Mantar hay muchos más artilugios maravillosos que datan de hace tres siglos, entre 1727 y 1733.
Este observatorio astronómico es Patrimonio de la Humanidad dede 2010.
El templo hindú Birla Mandir de Jaipur. Es conocido también como el templo Laxmi Narayan y está dedicado al dios Vishnu (Narayan) y a su consorte Laxmi, la diosa de la riqueza.
Construido en mármol blanco con bellas esculturas talladas y tiene tres cúpulas las cuales representan las tres diferentes maneras o la variedad de maneras que hay para acercarse a la religión.
El Chandra Mahal solo puede admirarse desde el exterior, ya que sigue siendo la residencia de la familia del actual Maharajá, Bhawani Singh. Tiene una entrada con tres arcos bajo una galería limitada también por arcos, todos ellos de mármol labrado; su tejado plano constituye una inmensa terraza. Una gran puerta bajo un arco de mármol labrado flanqueada por dos elefantes de mármol blanco. La guardia del Maharajá flanquea la entrada: son cinco hombres con uniforme blanco, zapato negro, bigote y un gran turbante rojo.
El Fuerte de Amber está situado sobre unas colinas peñascosas.
Un sendero escarpdo cuesta arriba lleva al Pole Surya, la entrada principal al fuerte.
Nahargarh Fort stands on the edge of the Aravalli Hills, overlooking the city of Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Along with Amer Fort and Jaigarh Fort, Nahargarh once formed a strong defence ring for the city. The fort was originally named Sudershangarh, but it became known as Nahargarh, which means 'abode of tigers'. The popular belief is that Nahar here stands for Nahar Singh Bhomia, whose spirit haunted the place and obstructed construction of the fort. Nahar's spirit was pacified by building a temple in his memory within the fort, which thus became known by his name.
Built mainly in 1734 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, the king of Jaipur, the fort was constructed as a place of retreat on the summit of the ridge above the city. Walls extended over the surrounding hills, forming fortifications that connected this fort to Jaigarh, the fort above the old capital of Amber. Though the fort never came under attack during the course of its history, it did see some historical events, notably, the treaties with the Maratha forces who warred with Jaipur in the 18th century. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Europeans of the region, including the British Resident's wife, were moved to Nahargarh fort by the king of Jaipur, Sawai Ram Singh, for their protection.
The fort was extended in 1868, during the reign of Sawai Ram Singh. In 1883-92, a range of palaces was built at Nahargarh by Dirgh Patel at a cost of nearly three and a half lakh rupees. The Madhavendra Bhawan, built by Sawai Madho Singh had suites for the queens of Jaipur and at the head was a suite for the king himself. The rooms are linked by corridors and still have some delicate frescoes. Nahargarh was also a hunting residence of the Maharajas.
Until April 1944, the Jaipur State government used for its official purposes solar time read from the Samrat Yantra in the Jantar Mantar Observatory, with a gun fired from Nahargarh Fort as the time signal.
Some scenes in the movies Rang De Basanti, Shuddh Desi Romance and Sonar Kella were shot at Nahargarh Fort.
Hawa Mahal is a palace in Jaipur, India, so named because it was essentially a high screen wall built so the women of the royal household could observe street festivals while unseen from the outside.
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Jaigarh Fort is situated on the promontory called the Cheel ka Teela (Hill of Eagles) of the Aravalli range; it overlooks the Amer Fort and the Maota Lake, near Amer in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Raja Kakil Dev captured the Amber region from the Mina tribes and began construction of Jaigarh fort around the middle of the eleventh century. Over the centuries, the Fort was augmented by subsequent rulers, including Maha Raja Jai Singh II, who added palace apartments to the complex.
The fort, rugged and similar in structural design to the Amer Fort, is also known as Victory Fort. It has a length of 3 kilometres along the north–south direction and a width of 1 kilometre. The fort features a cannon named "Jaivana" (Jaivana Cannon), which was manufactured in the fort precincts and was then the world's largest cannon on wheels. Jaigarh Fort and Amer Fort are connected by subterranean passages and considered as one complex.