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#PadmanabhapuramPalace is a Travancore era palace located in Padmanabhapuram, Kalkulam,
Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu. It is also known as Kalkulam Palace.
📷1: View from the Entrance
📷2: Backside view of palace.
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Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu. It is also known as Kalkulam Palace.
📷1: View from the Entrance
📷2: Backside view of palace.
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#PadmanabhapuramPalace is complex inside with an old granite fortress around four kilometers long. The palace is located at the foot of the Veli Hills, which forms a part of the Western Ghats.
📷1+2: Front of the palace.
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📷1+2: Front of the palace.
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The palace was constructed around 1601 CE by Iravi Varma Kulasekhara Perumal. The founder of modern Travancore, King Anizham Thirunal Marthanda Varma who ruled Travancore from 1729 to 1758, rebuilt palace in around 1750..
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📷1: Clock Tower & Roof of #PadmanabhapuramPalace.
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📷1: Clock Tower & Roof of #PadmanabhapuramPalace.
Shaniwarwada is a historical fortification in Pune, Maharashtra. Built in 1732, it was seat of the Peshwas of Maratha Empire until 1818, when the Peshwas lost control to the British East India Company after the Third Anglo-Maratha War.
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📷An equestrian statue of Bajirao I in the Shaniwarwada complex. Bajirao I, the second Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, was the first resident of the fort as a Peshwa.
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#ShaniwarWada has 5 gates:
📷Dilli Darwaza is the main gate of the complex, and faces north towards Delhi. The strongly built Dilli Darwaza gatehouse has massive doors, large enough to admit elephants outfitted seating canopies.
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📷Dilli Darwaza is the main gate of the complex, and faces north towards Delhi. The strongly built Dilli Darwaza gatehouse has massive doors, large enough to admit elephants outfitted seating canopies.
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