Bikaner
Bikaner is a locality in Bīkāner District, Rajasthan.Places of Interest
Highlights include Lalgarh Palace and Junagarh Fort.
Lalgarh Palace
Castle
Photo: Noledam, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lalgarh Palace is a palace and heritage hotel in Bikaner, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, built for Sir Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner, between 1902 and 1926. Laxmi Niwas Palace is a part of Lalgarh Palace but it has been given on lease and recently is being used as a heritage hotel and marriage garden.
Junagarh Fort
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Junagarh Fort is a fort in the city of Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. The fort was originally called Chintamani and was renamed Junagarh or "Old Fort" in the early 20th century when the ruling family moved to Lalgarh Palace outside the fort limits.
Laxmi Niwas Palace
Castle
Photo: DevUbc, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lalgarh Palace is a palace and heritage hotel in Bikaner, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, built for Sir Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner, between 1902 and 1926.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bikaner.
Bikaner
Photo: Pablo Nicolás Taibi Cicaré, CC BY 2.0.
Bikaner is a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is situated approximately 330 kilometres northwest of the state capital, Jaipur, in the Thar Desert region of western Rajasthan.
Bikaner
- Type: Locality with 920,000 residents
- Location: Bīkāner District, Rajasthan, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
28.0589° or 28° 3′ 32″ northLongitude
73.3371° or 73° 20′ 14″ eastPopulation
920,000Elevation
233 metres (764 feet)Open location code
7JWM385P+HVGeoNames ID
12680967
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