Samode Palace
Fort-turned-palace of mirrored halls, vivid frescoes, and five centuries of Rajput court history.
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This guide to Samode Palace, outside Jaipur, opens in 1818 with a nobleman, Rawal Berisal, signing a treaty on behalf of his Maharaja and then coming home to a sixteenth-century fort at the foot of the Aravalli hills. It follows how he and a later descendant, a prime minister of Jaipur state, turned a soldiers' stronghold into a palace of painted halls and mirrored rooms. Best heard while walking up through the courtyards.
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