The Palace of the Wind Hawa Mahal, the pride of the ‘pink city’ Jaipur

Hawa Mahal, also known as the “Palace of the Wind”, is one of the famous destinations of the “pink city” of Jaipur, India. This place not only attracts visitors thanks to its special air-intake architecture but also makes many people curious with the strange structure through nearly 1000 small windows.

The Birth of the Hawa Mahal

In 1799, with the purpose of expanding the Zenana palace, the then ruler of Jaipur city, Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh, decided to build another beautiful palace. And the Hawa Mahal palace was built in the image of the crown of the goddess Krishna.

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What’s behind the windows in Hawa Mahal?

Originally, the Hawa Mahal was built with the purpose of being a place reserved for royal women. Through their doorways, they can watch and observe the daily life of the surrounding residents or watch the ceremonies taking place on the street without showing their faces. Perhaps that is why the Hawa Mahal does not have a direct entrance, if you want to visit the Hawa Mahal, you need to go from the entrance of the City Palace.

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Hawa Mahal .’s distinctive architecture

Unlike any other palace in the world, Hawa Mahal is a combination of 953 windows with fancy and sophisticated drawings. It is this combination that makes the Hawa Mahal palace like a giant beehive that can catch the wind and regulate the air. Hawa Mahal Palace consists of 5 floors, all made of pink sandstone and is extremely prominent in the city of Jaipur.

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The Hawa Mahal Palace has a special architecture thanks to the harmonious combination of Mughal Islamic and Hindu Rajrut styles. It is Islamic architecture when carving and making stone, dotted with dome form and Hindu-style decorative art.

Although you can find this style of architecture at many famous buildings in India such as the Taj Mahal or Agra fort, Hawa Mahal is unique as an psychedelic image through its optical properties. learn .

Hawa Mahal is a harmonious combination of Hindu Rajput and Muslim Mugha architecture.

If the front of the palace is decorated with many sophisticated and unique motifs, the interior of the palace is quite simple, there are only pillars and paths to higher floors. Hawa Mahal Palace has no direct access and does not use stairs, they mainly use ramps to move. However, in 2005, to serve the sightseeing needs of visitors, Hawa Mahal was renovated and built an elevator to help visitors easily move.

Unique patterns in the doorways of Hawa Mahal. Photo: @le_soleil.323.

With its huge window system of 953 doorways, the Hawa Mahal Palace always receives cool breezes blowing in from the outside, so no matter how hot the summer is, it still has a climate. incredibly cool. Therefore, in the past, the Hawa Mahal palace was also the place where Indian royal members flocked to “escape the heat”.

The palace shines in the rays of the dawn of a new day. Photo: @imperial.rajasthan.

The most suitable time to visit Hawa Mahal is early in the morning, when the first rays of the day shine down on the palace, the entire space here is as lit and brilliant in the sunrise in Jaipur.

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