In the Rajsamand district of the western Indian state of Rajasthan, Kumbhalgarh, commonly referred to as the Great Wall of India, is a Mewar fortification on the western slope of the Aravalli Hills, only 48 kilometres from Rajsamand city. About 84 kilometres separate it from Udaipur. It is a part of Hill Forts of Rajasthan, a World Heritage Site. Rana Kumbha constructed it in the 15th century. Kumbhalgarh Fort and five other Rajasthani forts were included in the list of forts included in the Hill Forts of Rajasthan category when the 37th session of World Heritage Committee was held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 2013. Mandan, who served as the principal architect of the fort, described his method of construction in his book Rajvallabh. The fort complex is one of the biggest in the world. The 36 kilometre perimeter walls of the fort of Kumbhalgarh, which was constructed on a mountaintop 1,100 metres above sea level in the Aravalli range, make it one of the longest walls in the world. The thickness of the frontal walls is fifteen feet. There are seven fortified entrances in Kumbhalgarh. The fort contains more than 70 temples, including Jain and Hindu temples. One can view kilometres into the Aravalli Range from the palace-roof [Information Credit : Kumbhalgarh, Wikipedia; Wikipedia-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbhalgarh ] [Image: Aerial view of a portion of the Kumbhalgarh Fort wall; Wikipedia Image Author : Heman kumar meena ] [Image Availed Under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (Kindly Relate to Individual Source Image URLs for More Usage Properties)] [License-Link : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en ] [Wikipedia-Source Image URL : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_Kumbhalgarh.jpg ] #Architecture#Castles
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