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09/10/2019

Thirumalai Nayak Mahal,Madurai,Tamilnadu,India.

Thirumalai Nayak Mahal could be a lovely palace in Madurai designed by Thirumalai Nayak in 1636. Divided into Swargavilasa and Rangavilasa, it's one among the vital traveller places to go to in Madurai. clathrate with 248 pillars, the ceilings area unit embellished with massive paintings showing Shaivite and Vaishnavite themes.

The Darbar hall (courtyard) and therefore the Natakasala (dancing hall) carry the first glory and area unit the prime attractions for tourists. the main and therefore the exceptional a part of this palace is that the dome of Swarga Vilasa that lies on the far side an enormous yard.

30/09/2019

Shyamnagar Zaminder Bari,Satkhira,Bangladesh.
Once, Jashahor (present Satkhira and Jessore districts) was a princely state of south Bengal. Maharaja Pratapaditya was its king and his capital was located at present-day Dhumghat village in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira. After the fall of Pratapaditya, Haricharan Roy Chowdhury became the most influential and wealthy zamindar (landlord) of southern Bengal from 1885 to 1915.

The zamindar built a palatial house in 1888 at Nakipur village in Shyamnagar upazila. Locally known as ‘Nakipur Zamindar Bari’, it is about 62km northeast of Satkhira city. According to historical records, the entire Nakipur estate comprised 200,000 lakh acres of land that spread from Hingalganj in West Bengal, India to Shyamnagar in Satkhira.

Haricharan Roy didn’t spend his life enjoying wealth and luxury. He carried out a number of activities, including excavating water reservoirs, building roads and planting trees, for people’s welfare. He was a strong promoter of education and several educational institutions were established with his financial support. Among these, Nakipur HC (Haricharan Chowdhury) Minor School is notable. Established in 1899, it is now known as Nakipur Pilot High School.

When the zamindar died in 1915, Nakipur estate was run by his two sons, who too died in 1937 and 1949 respectively. The zamindari system was abolished in 1950, and Haricharan Roy’s descendants moved to West Bengal in 1954. Since then, the zamindar house lies abandoned.

According to Charu Chandra Mondal, a retired headmaster and writer, the house was built on 12 bigha (about four acres) of land, and included a garden house. It was a massive L-shaped three-storied building, consisting of 85 rooms. There were 27 rooms on the ground floor and 58 rooms of various sizes on the top two floors. The roof was made of lime-girder. There were verandahs on all sides. There was a basement which was used for storage. There were staircases in the middle of the house and in front of the main entrance door. The ground floor was used for offices and there were sitting rooms on both sides of the stairs. There were four gates to enter the house, with a large lion gate in the front.

There was a large dighi (water reservoir) to the south of the house, but it no longer exists. On the left side of the dighi, there was a two-storied nahabatkhana (drum house), which is in ruins now. There was a small pond closer to the house for women. There are two Shiva temples on its dilapidated ghat (paved steps).

The estate now lies in ruins, with parts of its beautiful buildings still standing. One can easily visualise their past glory by observing the ruins. The spectacular L-shaped house does not exist as before, its southern part has already disappeared.

All movable property of the zamindar house has been taken away by local influential people. In the darkness of the night, bricks, precious stones, valuable iron beams and timber are stolen. In addition, women and children remove bricks during the day, but there is no one to stop them. Two local families were found living in the abandoned house during a recent visit.

The heritage house is now in a perilous condition. Initiatives are needed to preserve Nakipur Zamindar Bari now.

08/09/2019

The Victoria Memorial is a large marble building in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, which was built between 1906 and 1921. It is dedicated to the memory of Queen Victoria (1819–1901) and is now a museum and tourist destination under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture.

04/09/2019

There was a nishada king named Nila who ruled over Mahishmati. King Nila had a daughter who was exceedingly beautiful. So much so that Agni (lord of fire) fell in love with her which was reciprocated. The princess always used to stay near the sacred fire of her father, causing it to blaze up with vigour. And king Nila's sacred fire, even if fanned, would not blaze until agitated by the gentle breath of her lips. Agni, assuming the form of a Brahman starts courting with the princess for long. But, one day the couple was discovered by the king, who became furious. Nila thereupon ordered the Brahman to be punished according to law. At this the illustrious deity flamed up in wrath and beholding the terrible flame, the king felt terrified and bent his head low on the ground. King hails Lord Agni and says he cannot punish a god who is responsible for the origin of Vedas, source of all Knowledge and Dharma. Pacified Agni then grants a boon to Nishada, and the King requests for the protection of his kingdom from any invasions. Agni swears to protect his kingdom on the condition that the king should sanctify pleasure out of pure love a legitimate action in his kingdom. Liberated from the orthodoxy of marriage as a prelude, women of Mahishmati enjoyed freedom that was then unheard off elsewhere in aryavarta.

Years later, after the epic war the victorious Yudhishthira plans on conducting a Yagna by winning over everyone else on Earth. Sahadeva, the youngest of Pandavas knowing that Lord Agni was protecting the Nishada kingdom, prays to Lord Agni successfully and there upon moves to Saurashtra kingdom.[5][page needed]

Of note, even to this day, the Sahasrarjun temple at Maheshwar lights 11 lamps in honour of Lord Agni blessing the Kingdom. Alternatively, this tradition is attributed to Sahasrarjun queens humiliating captive ten-headed Ravana by lighting up candles on his foreheads.

In the late eighteenth century, Maheshwar served as the capital of the great Maratha queen Rajmata Ahilya Devi Holkar. She embellished the city with many buildings and public works, and it is home to her palace, as well as numerous temples, a fort, and riverfront ghats (broad stone steps which step down to the river).

Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj has performed various akhand (continues) sankirtan outside shiva temple at maheshwar for more than months. Even though Kripaluji was from mahu (30 km from maheshwar), he frequently visited this place in his early life with devotees of lord Krishna to perform sankirtan on the banks of the Narmada river in Maheshwar.

04/09/2019

Omkareshwar is said to be the place where Sri Adi Sankara met his Guru Govindapada in a cave. This cave can be found even today just below the Shiva temple where an image of Adi Shankara has been installed.It is situated in the Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh state in India. It is about 12 km from Mortakka in Madhya Pradesh. Omkareshwar is formed by the sacred river Narmada. This is one of the most sacred of rivers in India and is now home to one of the world's biggest dam projects. The temple is situated on Mandatha island on the banks of Narmada and river Kaveri (a tributary of Narmada).

03/11/2018

Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is a historic, Victorian-era Scottish Baronial mansion. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada due to its landmark status in Victoria.
Craigdarroch Castle has 39 rooms and over 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2). It was constructed in the late 1800s as a family residence for the wealthy coal baron Robert Dunsmuir and his wife Joan. Robert died in April 1889, 17 months before construction on the castle was completed. His sons Alexander and James took over the role of finishing the castle after his death. The initial architect of the castle, Warren Heywood Williams, also died before completion of the castle. His work was taken over by his associate, Arthur L. Smith, in 1890. James Dunsmuir also commissioned the construction of Victoria's second castle; Hatley Castle located in Colwood, British Columbia.
Craigdarroch Castle is believed to have cost as much as $500,000 when it was built, and included granite from British Columbia, tile from San Francisco, and an oak staircase prefabricated in Chicago. When originally constructed Craigdarroch stood in grounds comprising 28 acres (110,000 m2) of formal gardens in Victoria's Rockland neighbourhood.
Upon the death of Robert Dunsmuir's widow, Joan, the Craigdarroch estate was sold to land speculator Griffith Hughes for $38,000 who subdivided the estate into building lots.[5] To stimulate sales during a slow real estate market, Griffiths announced that the castle would be the subject of a raffle, to be won by one of the purchasers of the residential parcels carved from the estate. The winner, Solomon Cameron, mortgaged the castle to finance other speculative ventures which failed, leaving him broke, and in 1919 ownership of the castle passed to one of Cameron's creditors, the Bank of Montreal.
The four-story Craigdarroch Castle still has lavish furnishings from the 1890s and is known for its stained-glass and intricate woodwork. The Castle is currently owned by the Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society, which is a private non-profit society, and is open to the public. The castle is a tourist attraction, and receives 150,000 visitors a year.
The Institute for Stained Glass in Canada has dCraigdarroch Castle in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is a historic, Victorian-era Scottish Baronial mansion. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada due to its landmark status in Victoria.

01/11/2018

Victorian and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai,India.
In yet another landmark achievement, India’s nomination of the “Victorian and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai ” has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list. The decision was taken at the 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO at Manama in Bahrain today. As recommended by the World Heritage Committee, India accepted the renaming of the ensemble as “Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai”.
India has been successful in securing the inscription of the “Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai” on UNESCO’s World Heritage List under Criteria (ii) and (iv) as defined in the UNESCO’s Operational Guidelines.
This makes Mumbai city the second city in India after Ahmedabad to be inscribed on the World Heritage List. In the past 5 years alone, India has managed to get inscribed seven of its properties/sites on the World Heritage List of UNESCO. India now has overall 37 World Heritage Inscriptions with 29 Cultural, 07 Natural and 01 Mixed sites. While India stands second largest in number after China in terms of the number of World Heritage properties in ASPAC (Asia and Pacific) region, it is overall sixth in the world.
On this historic moment, Indian Union Minister of State for Culture Dr Mahesh Sharma has congratulated the residents of Mumbai and the entire country for this landmark achievement. In his statement, the Minister said that the international recognition to the heritage precinct of the city of Mumbai is a matter of great pride to the nation and it will boost the local economy in a number of ways. He also added that this achievement is expected to give a tremendous fillip to domestic and international tourism leading to increased employment generation, the creation of world-class infrastructure and augmentation of the sale of local handicrafts, handlooms and heritage memorabilia.

22/10/2018

Mahabodhi Temple
The Mahabodhi Temple Complex, Bodh Gaya lies 115 km south of the state capital of Bihar, Patna and 16 km from the district headquarters at Gaya, in Eastern India.

It is one of the four holy sites related to the life of the Lord Buddha, and particularly to the attainment of Enlightenment.

The Mahabodhi Temple Complex is the first temple built by Emperor Asoka in the 3rd century B.C., and the present temple dates from the 5th–6th centuries. It is one of the earliest Buddhist temples constructed totally in brick, still standing, from the late Gupta period.

22/10/2018

Group of Monuments at Pattadakal, Karnataka
Pattadakal is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an important tourist site located in Karnataka. It is famous for its Chalukya style of architecture that originated in Aihole and blended with the Nagara and Dravidian styles of architecture. It is at Pattadakal that all the Chalukya kings were coronated and was the capital of the Chalukyas as well. Notable for the numerous temples constructed by the Chalukya rulers, it includes 8 temples dedicated to Lord Shiva and Jain and Shaivite sanctuaries. The important monuments are- Virupaksha Temple, Sangameshwara Temple, Chandrashekhara Temple, MallikarjuTemple, Kashivishwanaath Temple, Galganath Temple, Jain Temple and many more.

03/09/2018

The Historic Centre of Krakow

The former capital city of Krakow (aka Cracow) is home to Europe’s largest market square and home to Jagellonian University, one of the oldest universities in Europe, where Pope John Paul II attended. In the center of the historical city of Krakow you will find the Skiennice, aka Old Cloth Hall (pictured above) which used to be an ancient cloth market. There is the Gothic cathedral where visitors can stand on the ruins of buried Polish kings. If you move past this and up the hill of the Wawel you can see a couple historical gems including the Royal Palace, which was destroyed in the war and is now home to a museum filled with gorgeous tapestries. Before WWII, Krakow was home to large Jewish communities signified by the ancient synagogues surrounding the city.

Don’t miss impressive Wawel Castle, the ancient Krakow Market Square and fascinating Cloth Hall. There are also plenty of free things to do across the city, including exploring Rynek Glowny, enjoying a free walking tour of Krakow and discovering the 19th Century Polish Painting Gallery.

18/08/2018

Historic Centre of Vienna (Austria)
Vienna developed from early Celtic and Roman settlements into a Medieval and Baroque city, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It played an essential role as a leading European music centre, from the great age of Viennese Classicism through the early part of the 20th century. The historic centre of Vienna is rich in architectural ensembles, including Baroque castles and gardens, as well as the late-19th-century Ringstrasse lined with grand buildings, monuments and parks.

18/08/2018

Archaeological Site of Cyrene
A colony of the Greeks of Thera, Cyrene was one of the principal cities in the Hellenic world. It was Romanized and remained a great capital until the earthquake of 365. A thousand years of history is written into its ruins, which have been famous since the 18th century.

18/08/2018

Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi (Uganda)
The Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi constitute a site embracing almost 30 ha of hillside within Kampala district. Most of the site is agricultural, farmed by traditional methods. At its core on the hilltop is the former palace of the Kabakas of Buganda, built in 1882 and converted into the royal burial ground in 1884. Four royal tombs now lie within the Muzibu Azaala Mpanga, the main building, which is circular and surmounted by a dome. It is a major example of an architectural achievement in organic materials, principally wood, thatch, reed, wattle and daub. The site's main significance lies, however, in its intangible values of belief, spirituality, continuity and identity.

10/07/2018

Hampi: The boulder story
An assorted mix of temples, rich history, the serenading Tungabhadra and an abundance of culture. You get all this and more on a trip to the UNESCO world heritage site of Hampi. Often referred to as A Forgotten Empire, The Boulder City, Kishkindha Nagari in the Ramayana and The City Of Ruins, Hampi is the place where time stands still and you can’t help but gasp at the magnificent reminisces of a glorious time gone by. We list out things that you can do in Hampi when you get teleported in time. So get set with a lot of sunscreen and a water bottle and explore the stunning landscape of Hampi.Hampi’s most popular attractions are its fascinating ruins and giant boulders. Some prominent buildings of The City of Ruins include the imposing Elephant Stables, Lotus Mahal, Stepped Tank, Watch Tower and the Zenana Enclosure. One of our favourites is the stunning Vithala Temple which is much loved by film makers.With over 2,000 temples across 26 square kilometres, Hampi has famous Hindu temples such as the Badavai Linga, Achutaraya Temple, Hazara Rama Temple, Krishna Temple, Vittala Temple and the Chandramauleshwara Temple among others. The only active place of worship in the protected area now is the Virupaaksha Temple, the only temple to have its own elephant!

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