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City Wall Of Jaipur
The Jaipur city wall is the city wall encircling the old Jaipur city in Rajasthan state in India. History It was built in 1727 when the city was founded by Maharaja Jai Singh II. Features The wall is six meters high and three meters thick. There are seven gates in the wall. The gates are: *Chandpole *Surajpole *Ajmer Ajmer () is a city in the north-western States and union territories of India, Indian state of Rajasthan. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Ajmer district and Ajmer division. It lies at the centre of Rajasthan, earning it the ...i gate or Kishanpole *New gate or Nayapole *Sanganeri gate or Shivpole *Ghat gate or Rampole *Samrat gate or Brahma Pole *Zorawar Singh Gate or Dhruvpole *Gangapole *Chaar Darwaza *Singh Dwar References *Building Jaipur: the making of an Indian city By Vibhuti Sachdev, Giles Henry Rupert TillotsonJaipur Municipal Corporation*Rajasthan Patrika Date 7/9/2020 Gates in India Buildings and structures comple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE CENTRE-JAIPUR CITY-RAJASTHAN-01-
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It has 194 member states and 12 associate members, as well as partners in the non-governmental, intergovernmental and private sector. Headquartered in Paris, France, UNESCO has 53 regional field offices and 199 national commissions. UNESCO was founded in 1945 as the successor to the League of Nations' International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation.English summary). UNESCO's founding mission, which was shaped by the events of World War II, is to advance peace, sustainable development and human rights by facilitating collaboration and dialogue among nations. It pursues this objective through five major programme areas: education, natural sciences, social/human sciences, culture and communication/information. UNESCO spons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
