Nahargarh Fort
Built in 1734 as a hilltop retreat, named for the ghost its builders had to appease.
Coming soon on iOS — be first to walk Jaipur offline.
Jai Singh II raised this fort as a hilltop retreat and part of Jaipur's triple-fort defense ring — yet it never came under attack. The Madhavendra Bhawan palace holds interconnected queen suites with surviving frescoes. Until April 1944, a cannon fired from here served as the city's daily time signal, triggered by a reading from the Jantar Mantar observatory below.
What to look for
- Frescoes in the Madhavendra Bhawan corridors linking the queens' individual suites
- The temple built inside the walls to pacify Nahar Singh Bhomia's spirit — the ghost whose hauntings allegedly halted original construction
- Ridge walls stretching toward Jaigarh Fort, the physical link that once connected this fort to the old capital of Amber
Entry ₹52 for Indians, ₹600 for foreign tourists, ₹50 for foreign students.
Nahargarh Fort is one of 7 sights worth the detour in Jaipur, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Jaipur pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Jaipur
- Hawa MahalThat towering honeycomb wall everyone photographs from the street? It's the back of the palace.
- Jantar MantarA Rajput king built 19 stone instruments here to fix the royal star charts — and the world's largest stone sundial is still the centerpiece.
- Amber FortA hilltop palace where Raja Man Singh built twelve queens' rooms each with a staircase to his chamber — yet the queens were forbidden from ascending it — and engineers cooled a room using wind blown over a water cascade.
- Jal MahalA five-story sandstone hunting lodge sits in the middle of Man Sagar Lake — its lower floors beneath the waterline when the lake is full.
- Jaigarh FortFour hundred metres above Amer, the fort that cast the world's largest cannon on wheels still commands the valley.
- City PalaceThe Jaipur royal family still lives here — around 500 personal servants included.