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City palace
City palace 's Sawai Man Singh II museum is at a walkable distance. The Palace has been the home to the rulers of Jaipur since the first half of the 18th century. Entry Rs 40, Camera Rs 50, with no photography of inside galleries. The entry is through Rajendra pol gateway, which has two large elephants carved from single blocks of marble.
The Diwan-i-Khas has world's largest silver urns (two) weighing 345 kg each (In Guinness Book of records, carried sacred Ganges water for Madho Singh II's visit to London in 1901). The 900 litre urn has a height of 1.6 m and a circumference of 14 feet 10 inch.
The museum has a textile gallery with royal costumes (Maharani's Dewali dress, superb shawls including Kashmiri pashmina) in a marble decorated sandstone palace (Mubarak Mahal). The exhibit Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh I's clothing is 2 m tall, 1.2 m wide and weighs 250 kg. Appropriately for such an excessive figure, he had 108 wives. A hall with huge chandeliers (Diwan-i-Am), handicrafts shops, Transport gallery with silver & gold palanquins, Haudas, cannons on wheels, an art gallery, a palace cafe.
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