Udaipur City Palace is one of the architectural marvels of Rajasthan, located peacefully on the banks of Lake Pichola. This majestic City Palace is the most-visited tourist attraction of Udaipur and often distinguished as the largest palace complex in Rajasthan. Initially, Maharana Udai Singh built this superb wonder, but the present form of the Palace is the result of subsequent additions by his successors.
City Palace boasts of the wonderful blend of Medieval, European and Chinese Architecture. The Palace has various towers, domes and arches, which add to the flavor of heritage site. Towering on the banks of Pichola Lake, City Palace is truly a feast to the eyes. City Palace is a marvelous assortment of courtyards, pavilions, terraces, corridors, rooms and hanging gardens. Encircled by fortifications, this imposing Palace is wholly built in granite and marble.
The City Palace in Udaipur was built in a royal style and is considered the largest palace of Rajasthan, a fusion of the Rajasthani and Mughal architectural styles, and was built on a hilltop that gives an exotic view of the city and its surrounding, including several historic monuments such as the Lake Palace in Lake Pichola, the Jag Mandir. The City Palace of Udaipur has eleven enchanting palaces within itself. These royal apartments will just treat your eyeballs with the views of beautiful paintings, attractive mirror work and ornamental tiles work and traditional furniture of the royals. There are different palaces inside the City Palace and they are named differently for their different purposes.
The nearest airport is Dabok in Udaipur; from Dabok you can easily get private taxis, cabs to the City Palace Udaipur. If you would like to visit by train, then you can step down at Udaipur railway station, which is well connected to all the major cities of the country via regular trains. Then you can hire a private taxi up to the Palace. Also, there are frequent buses to Udaipur from all its nearby cities.
The best months to visit this beautiful city and palace are from September to March. The temperature does not go beyond 28.3 °C, and tourists can travel across the city comfortably at this time of the year.
