City Palace

City Palace- Built with mixed composition of Rajasthani and Mughal styles is a former royal residence in the centre of the old city. The carved arches resting on brown marble columns are embellished with floral motifs of gold and coloured stones. Two marble carved elephants stand like sentinels at the entrance. Families who have served kings from generation to generation have their own residences at back of the palace. They sometimes act as guides.

The palace has a museum that has a good collection of Rajasthani costumes and weapons from the Mughals and the Rajputs. It also has gilded swords of various colours and sizes, many of which are embellished with animal’s carvings and jewels and are studded with magnificent sheaths. The palace also has an art gallery with an excellent collection of miniatures, carpets, royal decorations and rare astronomy creations in Arabic, Persian, Latin and Sanskrit that Sawai Jai Singh II acquired to study astronomy in detail.