Sawai Jai Singh II moved his capital off the hill in 1727 and laid out a city by treatise — wide avenues, walled blocks, and an observatory in the middle of it.
1592
Amber
The Kachwaha capital in the hills.
1727
Jaipur founded
A grid city on the plain below.
1734
Jantar Mantar
Masonry instruments for the sky.
1876
Pink city
Painted terracotta for a royal visit.
The Kachwaha family's palace, part of which is still their home, with an armoury, royal textiles and two silver urns made in 1902 to carry Ganges water to London.
Not on the composite ticket. The Pitam Niwas Chowk's four peacock gates are the most photographed spot.
2 hrs
Opened in 1887 as Rajasthan's first public museum, an Indo-Saracenic hall with an Egyptian mummy, carpets, arms and miniature paintings.
Also open in the evening, when the building is floodlit.
90 min
A restored haveli in Amber town devoted to Rajasthan's block-printing tradition, with live carving and printing demonstrations.
Closed Mondays; check opening hours in summer.
60 min
Opened in 2024 as India's first museum of meenakari, the enamel work of Jaipur's jewelers, in the Sunita Shekhawat haveli.
Pair with shopping on nearby MI Road.
60 min
Rajasthan's crafts — textiles, jewelry, pottery and painting — in a nineteenth-century building in the walled city, converted into a museum in 2017.
Quiet and rarely crowded.
90 min
Charles Correa's 1991 arts center, built as nine squares in homage to the city's own plan, with galleries, a theater and painted domes.
Check the listings for evening theater and music.
60 min