Datia Palace

Datia Palace

The speciality of this palace is that it is of 7 floor. However nither member from the royal family did ever lived here. Datia's palace or the satkhanda palace is also called the Purana Mahal or the "old palace". Historian Abdul Hamid Lahori came to this city with Shah Jahan on 19 November 1635. He said that the palace was nearly 80 meters long and was also this much broad. He said this as a very beautiful and strong palace. 

This palace was made by spending 35 lakh Rupees (78 thousand us dollars) and it took nine years to build it. It is situated on a isolated rock on the western side of the city Datia. It represents Mughal architecture along with Rajput architecture. It is the biggest and most famous of allthe 52 palaces build by Raja birsingh Deo and it can be seen easily from a long distance.

The palace mainly has four quadrangular part with a "Mandap" or the main centre on the central point of the palace. It is totally made using stones and neither wood nor iron is used in this whole palace.

Source of Date and Time is Internet, Kindly crosscheck/reconfirm before finalizing the Tour Plan.