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Hari Parbat (Kashmiri pronunciation: [haːri parbatʰ]), also called Koh-i-Maran [1] [2] [3] (Kashmiri pronunciation: [koːhi maːraːn]), is a hill overlooking Srinagar, the largest city and the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is the site of the Hari Parbat fort, built by the Durrani Empire, and of a Hindu temple, mosques, and gurdwara.
Pari Mahal or Peer Mahal, also known as The Palace of Fairies a beautiful garden, It is the seven-terraced Mughal garden located at the top of Zabarwan mountain range, overlooking the city of Srinagar and the south-west of Dal Lake in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Following the Mughal conquest of Kashmir, Akbar carried out his first architectural project in Srinagar of creating a fortress atop Hari Parbat. This was a walled city called Nāgar Nagar (c. 1597), which acted as the centre of Mughal administration in Kashmir. Akbar employed 200 stonemasons from outside Kashmir to build the fort, since ...
Srinagar (English: / ˈ s r iː n ə ɡ ər / ⓘ; Kashmiri pronunciation: [siriːnagar]) is a city in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. [1] It is the largest city and summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, which is an Indian-administered union territory .
It is now a public park and also referred to as the "Crown of Srinagar". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is the earliest of the Mughal imperial gardens called Shalimar Gardens , followed by the one in Lahore , begun in 1641 under Shah Jahan and the one in Delhi , begun in 1653 by Izz-un-Nissa , his wife.
Srinagar is one of several places that have been called the "Venice of the East". [24] [25] [26] Lakes around the city include Dal Lake – noted for its houseboats – and Nigeen Lake. Apart from Dal Lake and Nigeen Lake, Wular Lake and Manasbal Lake both lie to the north of Srinagar. Wular Lake is one of the largest fresh water lakes in Asia.
Salim Ali National Park or City Forest National Park is a national park located in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. [ citation needed ] It covered an area of 9.07 km 2 . [ 1 ] Notified in 1986, the name of the park commemorated the Indian ornithologist Salim Ali .
Dal (Urdu pronunciation: ; Kashmiri pronunciation:) is a freshwater lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir in Indian-administered Kashmir.It is an urban lake, the second largest lake in Jammu and Kashmir, and the most visited place in Srinagar by tourists and locals.