HAWA MAHAL

Hawa Mahal "Palace of Winds" or "Palace of the Breeze"), 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 festivities while unseen from the outside. Constructed of red and pink sandstone, the palace sits on the edge of the City Palace, and extends to the zenana, or women's chambers.

Hawa Mahal is a marvellous structure within the red associated with Indian, Jaipur. Hawa Mahal had been constructed through Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh within 1799. Hawa Mahal has got the type of overhead associated with Krishna as well as had been created by learn builder Lal Chand Usta. This is a 5 varied framework and it has 953 home windows. These types of home windows, referred to as Jharokas this a glance for a honeycomb from the beehive. The objective of this kind of style was going to help regal women to see town living without having to be observed through other people when it was normal to allow them to notice stringent "purdah". Hawa Mahal is made associated with red-colored sandstone and it is situated in a occupied industrial middle associated with Jaipur. Hawa Mahal whenever observed morning hours provides a spectacular see bathed within fantastic dawn.

HISTORY

           Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh had been additionally accountable for the actual fantastic preparing as well as improvement Jaipur town within 1727. It had been the actual grand son associated with Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, Sawai Pratap Singh who had been the actual boy associated with Maharaja Sawai Madhosingh We who else constructed the actual Hawa Mahal within 1799. Pratap Singh had been a good hardcore lover associated with God Krishna. This particular immortal loyalty with regard to God Krishna influenced Pratap Singh to create Hawa Mahal in the honor. Although you will find absolutely no apparent data of all time it really is considered which Hawa Mahal had been created for regal women to possess a glance associated with occupied town living without having to be noticed through other people. The actual regal group of Jaipur additionally utilized Hawa Mahal like a summer time escape. Throughout the very hot summer season the actual incredibly created windowpane displays associated with Hawa Mahal supplied awesome air flow that supplied a lot rest from the actual extreme temperature from the summer season.

          

The palace is a five-story pyramidal shaped monument that rises 50 feet (15 m) from its high base. The top three floors of the structure have a dimension of one room width while the first and second floors have patios in front of them. The front elevation, as seen from the street, is like a honeycomb web of a beehive, built with small portholes. Each porthole has miniature windows and carved sandstone grills, finials and domes. It gives the appearance of a mass of semi-octagonal bays, giving the monument its unique façade. The inner face on the back side of the building consists of need-based chambers built with pillars and corridors with minimal ornamentation, and reach up to the top floor. The interior of the Mahal has been described as "having rooms of different coloured marbles, relieved by inlaid panels or gilding; while fountains adorn the centre of the courtyard".

VISITOR INFORMATION

The palace, called the "specimen of fanciful architecture", is located to the south of the Jaipur city, at the main road intersection called the Badi Chaupad (big four square). Jaipur city is well connected by road, rail and air links with the rest of the country.  Jaipur Railway Station is a central main station on the broad gauge line of the Indian Railways. As well, Jaipur is connected by major highways, and by the International Airport at Sanganer, at a distance of 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from the city.

Entry to the Hawa Mahal is not from the front but from a side road to the rear end. Facing the Hawa Mahal, turning right and again to the first right, leads to an archway entry and then to the rear side of the building.

It is particularly striking when viewed early in the morning, lit with the golden light of sunrise