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Vidyadhar Garden In Jaipur – A Tribute To Chief Architect of Jaipur “Vidyadhar Bhattacharya”

The famed Mughal-style Vidyadhar Garden located around 7 km to the east of Jaipur city center falls en route Galta Ji and very close to Sisodia Garden.

Vidyadhar Garden in Jaipur

Vidyadhar Garden in Jaipur

Well-Planned Garden in Rajasthan

Vidhyadhar Gardens is the only well-planned garden in the Majestic city of Jaipur. Vidyadhar Garden was built in the memory of Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, the chief architect and the city planner of Jaipur.

The Garden has been designed as per the rules and edicts of Shilpa Shastra, the ancient Indian line of architecture, just as Vidyadhar did while planning Jaipur.

Vidhyadhar Garden Attractions

The terraced garden has several galleries, wonderfully sculpted fountains, sylvan lakes and pavilions decorated with exquisite murals depicting scene from the life of Lord Krishna.

The rambling expanse of the garden, beautifully landscaped and tended also houses a picturesque vineyard.

Enjoying a scenic valley setting, the Vidyadhar Garden offers a great escape from busy city life and a beautiful spot for a peaceful picnic with views.

If you are here, you are standing at a perfect spot where you can see peacocks and monkeys. Twilight is considered as the best time to the Gardens, when the setting sun and the lights illumine its outline in the backdrop of the adjoining hills.

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Ram Niwas Garden in Jaipur – Provide Open Space and Greenery to the Citizens

The parks and gardens forms an integral part of the Pink city architecture. Not Just did they provide respite from the blazing sun, but also the Mughal- Rajput fusion creates some fine examples of grandeur in green. One of them is Ram Niwas Garden.

Ram Niwas Garden in Jaipur

Ram Niwas Garden in Jaipur

Ram Niwas Bagh is located in the heart of the city, which makes it easily commutable from all parts of Jaipur. The place is at a convenient distance of nearly two kilometers from the center of the city at Badi Chaupar. The tourists arriving in the Pink City make it a point to visit this place to enjoy the natural beauty of the garden and of the flowering and non flowering plants in the garden.

Attractions Around Ram Niwas Bagh

A Zoo and Bird Park

To provide open space and greenery to the citizens, this large garden with a zoo, an aviary, a green house, a herbarium, several sports grounds was built during the reign of Sawi Ram Singh II in 1868 as a Famine Relief project.

Albert Hall Museum

Amidst the beautiful Ram Niwas Garden, surrounded by pools, fountains and rows of flowerbeds stands the exquisite Albert Hall, built on 1886 A.D. Designed by Colonel Sir Swinton Jacob who has crafted other Palaces of Rajasthan, built the Albert hall in honor of the King Edward VII visit to Jaipur, in Indo-Saracenic style.

It contains a fine collection of sculptures, paintings decorative art objects, natural history specimens, an Egyptian mummy and the celebrated Persian Garden Carpet.

Ravindra Manch

Ravindra Manch, an open theater with an auditorium and a modern art gallery attracts a lot of local and foreign tourists.

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