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The Ajanta Caves are a world-famous group of 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments hidden deep inside a scenic horseshoe-shaped mountain gorge in Aurangabad district. Hand-carved meticulously out of …
Located right in the heart of Alibaug town, this historic beach sits just 95 km from Mumbai by road, or a quick 45-minute ferry ride from Gateway of India to Mandwa jetty. Alibaug Beach is famous …
Bibi Ka Maqbara in Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar) is a grand Mughal mausoleum built in the 1660s to 1670s for Dilras Banu Begum, the wife of Emperor Aurangzeb. Closely modelled on the Taj M…
Daulatabad Fort (historically Devagiri) stands atop a steep 200-metre conical hill roughly 15-16 km northwest of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad), Maharashtra. It is a massive fortified hill-…
The Ellora Caves are a group of 34 rock-cut shrines carved into the basalt cliffs of the Charanandri Hills near Aurangabad. Stretching over two kilometres, they bring together Hindu, Buddhist and J…
The Haji Ali Dargah is one of Mumbai's most recognisable landmarks — a white-domed Indo-Islamic shrine and mosque set on a tiny islet in the Arabian Sea, reached by a causeway that submerges at hig…
Harishchandragad is an ancient hill fort where the boundaries of Thane, Pune and Ahmednagar (Ahilyanagar) districts converge, renowned for the Kedareshwar cave temple, the dramatic Konkan Kada clif…
Lohagad ("Iron Fort") is a hill fort in the Sahyadri range near Lonavala, about 52 km northwest of Pune, rising to 1,033 m above sea level and connected to the neighboring Visapur fort, overlooking…
Mahabaleshwar is a high-altitude hill station at an elevation of 1,353 metres on an expansive plateau ridge of the Sahyadri mountain range in Satara district. Enveloped by dense evergreen forests, …
Murud-Janjira is an oval-shaped island fort in the Arabian Sea off Raigad district, about 165 km south of Mumbai, famed as the sea stronghold of the Siddis that was never conquered despite repeated…
Naldurg is the Deccan's great water-engineered fort: a basalt stronghold of 114 bastions where the Bori river was dammed to fill the moat and, in flood, to spill over the Pani Mahal — a machine-roo…
Takht Sri Hazur Sahib at Nanded is one of the five Takhts (seats of temporal authority) of Sikhism, marking the place where Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru, passed away and declared the Guru Gran…
Panhala Fort sits in the Sahyadri range about 18-20 km northwest of Kolhapur, Maharashtra, at roughly 845 m above sea level, with a 14 km perimeter and around 110 lookout posts, earning it the nick…
Pratapgad is a mountain fort in Satara district, Maharashtra, standing 1,080 m above sea level and divided into a lower and upper fort with two main entrances and several watchtowers. It is famous …
Purandar Fort stands in the Western Ghats of Pune district at an elevation of about 1,374 metres, historically significant as the birthplace of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj and the site of the 1665…
Raigad is a hill fort in Mahad, Raigad district, Maharashtra, in the Sahyadri (Western Ghats) mountain range, rising 820 metres above its base and 1,356 m above sea level. It is famous as the capit…
Rajgad Fort stands on a hill known as Murumbadevi Dongar in Pune district, Maharashtra, about 50-60 km southwest of Pune city, rising to 1,376 metres above sea level with a base perimeter of roughl…
Shivneri Fort stands on a rugged hill near Junnar in Pune district, Maharashtra, with a triangular shape, seven defended gates, and mud walls spanning about a mile. It is celebrated as the birthpla…
Sindhudurg Fort is a sea fort built on Khurte island off Malvan in Sindhudurg district, roughly 450 km south of Mumbai, spanning about 48 acres with a nearly two-mile-long rampart and walls up to 3…
Sinhagad ("Lion's Fort") is an ancient hill fortress about 28 km southwest of Pune, perched on the Bhuleswar range of the Sahyadri Mountains at 1,317 m above sea level. It is renowned as the site o…
Suvarnadurg is an 8-acre island sea fort near Harnai in Ratnagiri district's Konkan region, about 1.6 km offshore, reachable only by boat and known as a key Maratha naval base and shipbuilding centre.
Torna Fort (also called Prachandagad) sits near Velhe village in Pune district at 1,403 metres above sea level, the highest hill fort in the district. It is famed as the first fort captured by a yo…
Vasai (Bassein) Fort was the Portuguese capital of the north for two centuries — a walled city of cathedrals, convents and palaces guarding the creek north of Mumbai. Chimaji Appa's Maratha campaig…
Vijaydurg Fort occupies a peninsula in Devgad taluka, Sindhudurg district, surrounded by the Arabian Sea on three sides, spanning roughly 17 acres and known as the "Eastern Gibraltar" for its role …
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