Historical landmark
Pink city Jaipur
Chandpole Bazar, Chandpole, Pink City, Jaipur, Rajasthan 304024
Old walled city where every building must by law be painted the same warm terracotta-pink.
This guide to the Pink City in Jaipur opens in 1876, as Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II prepares his walled city for a visit from the Prince of Wales and settles on an unusual color meant to signal welcome. It follows the search for the right pigment, quarried at Kanota and mixed to a warm terracotta shade, and the journalists traveling with the royal party who first put the city's new name into print. Look closely at the walls around you for the same formula still in use today.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.