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Fort d'Amber à Jaipur (Rajasthan, Inde).
Amer Fort in Jaipur (Rajasthan, Indien).
Amer Fort in Jaipur (Rajasthan, India).
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If you have observed my photostream you know I have something for doors, the heritage doors. I will upload a few more pictures of them in the coming days. This was seen in Amer, earlier this month
An entry way on the palace grounds showcases the magnificent architecture used to create the home of the maharaja of Jaipur. You can see how the theme of the Palace of the Winds is carried over to this complex too. A visit to the place was like entering a fairytale world. Truly one of the most colorful and interesting buildings I have visited in my travels.
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The Place where winds speak!Hawa Mahal,Rajasthan
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Hawa Mahal: Also known as the Palace of Winds located in the heart of Jaipur, India.
This structure was built in 1799 was built by King Pratap Singh and was intended to have this as viewing windows for the Royal family. However, the structure and the windows were built in such a way that it acts as a natural air cooler and prevents the palace from getting warm in the summer (temp > 45F). :-) There are a total of 953 windows.
Wikipedia link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawa_Mahal
Hawa Mahal, or "Palace of the Winds", erected in 1799. Just one room deep with walls not more than 20cm thick, designed to enable the veiled ladies of the harem to observe unnoticed the lively street scenes below. The Hawa Mahal is dedicated to the Lord Krishna.
The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Basilique Saint-Sernin (Occitan: Basilica de Sant Sarnin) is a church in Toulouse, France, the former abbey church of the Abbey of Saint- Sernin or St Saturnin. Apart from the church, none of the abbey buildings remain. The current church is located on the site of a previous basilica of the 4th century which contained the body of Saint Saturnin or Sernin, the first bishop of Toulouse in c. 250. Constructed in the Romanesque style between about 1080 and 1120, with construction continuing thereafter, Saint-Sernin is the largest remaining Romanesque building in Europe, if not the world. The church is particularly noted for the quality and quantity of its Romanesque sculpture. In 1998 the basilica was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites under the description: World Heritage Sites of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France. The abbey of Saint-Sernin was an ancient foundation. St. Sylvius, bishop of Toulouse, began construction of the basilica towards the end of the 4th century. Its importance increased enormously after Charlemagne (r. 768-800) donated a quantity of relics to it, as a result of which it became an important stop for pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela, and a pilgrimage location in its own right. The size of the current building and the existence of an ambulatory may reflect the need to accommodate increasing numbers of pilgrims. The difficulty of determining an accurate chronology for the construction of Saint-Sernin and the completion of its sculpture has given rise to numerous problems. At least as early as the 1010s, Bishop Pierre Roger had set aside a portion of the offerings to Saint-Sernin for an eventual rebuilding of the Carolingian church. During the decade of the 1070s and by 1080 at the latest, the canons of Saint-Sernin had accepted the rule of St. Augustine and had placed themselves under the direct control of the Holy See. Nevertheless, there are only two firm dates that bear directly on the church itself and even these involve certain difficulties. On May 24, 1096, Pope Urban II dedicated the altar of the still largely incomplete building. Although there have been numerous attempts to determine the point that construction had reached at this time, the most that can be said with certainty is that 1096 is a firm terminus ante quem. That is, construction must have begun at least several years before that date. The second firm date is July 3, 1118, the death of St. Raymond Gayrard, canon and provost of the chapter. A 15th-century life of the saint states that he took charge of the building after part of the church had been completed and that by the time of his death he had "brought the walls all the way around up to the completion of the windows..." Unfortunately, the life was written much later, some three hundred years after the events it describes, and since at least three different Raymonds were involved in the building of the church, the biographer may have confused elements from the lives of all three. At any rate, whenever started, it appears that construction of the church did not progress continuously through to completion, for there is physical evidence of several interruptions in construction. The literary evidence cited above indicates that construction proceeded from east to west and, indeed, it appears that the earliest part of the exterior walls is the southern, lower part of the ambulatory and its corresponding radiating chapels. The walls in this section are built of brick and stone, with a higher proportion of stone than elsewhere in the building. As construction proceeded, it was clearly marked by an increasing proportion of brick, the characteristic building material of Toulouse. While there is basic agreement on the starting point, interpretation of the subsequent archeological evidence is subject to varying opinions. The earliest systematic examinations, after the restoration of Viollet-le-Duc, concluded that there had been three major building campaigns. More recent observations have concluded that there were four major building campaigns. The earliest section begins with the apse and includes the chevet and all of the transept below the level of the gallery, including the Porte des Comtes in the south face of the transept. The second stage is marked by the walls of the transept being completed with alternating courses of brick and stone. This change is also paralleled by a change in the style of the interior decorated capitals. This break is most evident in the transept buttresses, which change from solid stone at the bottom to bands of brick and stone at the top, a change which occurs at various levels around the transept but generally about the level of the gallery floor. There then follows another break between the eastern portion of the church - including the transept and the first few bays of the nave itself - and the rest of the nave. The alternating courses of brick and stone give way to a predominantly brick technique with stone quoins and stone window frames. This third campaign includes the wall enclosing the entire nave, including the western entrance and ends just below the gallery windows. During the fourth phase, the remainder of the nave was completed in brick with almost no stone. The plan of the abbey church here was also used in the construction of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, "begun in 1082, too direct a copy to have been done by any but Saint-Sernin's own architect or his favored pupil", but finished much earlier. The stone that killed Simon de Montfort in 1218, while he was besieging Toulouse, was thrown from the roof of Saint-Sernin. In 1860, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc restored the church, but his changes are currently being removed to restore the original appearance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint-Sernin,_Toulouse
Sarvatobhadra open courtyard at City Palace, Jaipur, which includes the Chandra Mahal and Mubarak Mahal palaces and other buildings, is a palace complex in Jaipur, the capital of the Rajasthan state, India.
The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur is a collection of 19 astronomical instruments built by the Rajput king Sawai Jai Singh II, the founder of Jaipur, Rajasthan. The monument was completed in 1734. It features the world's largest stone sundial, and is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is near City Palace and Hawa Mahal. The instruments allow the observation of astronomical positions with the naked eye. The observatory is an example of the Ptolemaic positional astronomy which was shared by many civilizations.[
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Have you ever been to Jaipur before?🌆 The Jal Mahal - One of the most popular tourist destinations in Jaipur.🌁
This beauty is attractive on so many levels. I visited this place some days back while showing my wife all the popular tourist places in the city.😇 That day, not only Jal Mahal but various other usual city visuals took my attention.🌃
Jaipur capitale del Rajasthan - la città rosa
Jaipur capital of Rajasthan - the pink city
il “Palazzo dei Venti” chiamato anche Hawa Mahal in lingua Hindù. Costruito nel 1799 dal Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh, e realizzato in arenaria rossa e rosa a forma della corona del dio indiano Krishna è collocato accanto a quello che era l’harem permettendo così alle concubine di poter osservare cosa succedeva in strada senza essere viste.
Il palazzo si sviluppa su cinque piani e la facciata principale è costituita da 950 finestre.
Hawa Mahal - Palace of Winds - Jaipur - Rajasthan - India
The structure was built in 1799 by Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh designed by Lal Chand Ustad in the form of the crown of Krishna, the Hindu god. Its unique five-storey exterior is akin to the honeycomb of a beehive with its 953 small windows called jharokhas decorated with intricate latticework.
The original intention of the lattice was to allow royal ladies to observe everyday life in the street below without being seen.
The lattice also allows cool air from the Venturi effect (doctor breeze) through the intricate pattern, air conditioning the whole area during the high temperatures in summers