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The Pink City

Jaipur

The walled city wears a dusty terracotta pink, first painted on for a royal visit in 1876 and kept ever since.

East facade of Hawa Mahal, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Jaipur is jaipur pink

Jaipur was laid out on a grid in 1727. Its famous colour came later. In 1876 Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II had the walled city washed in a terracotta pink to welcome the Prince of Wales, pink being a colour of hospitality in Rajasthan. The shade is closer to salmon or brick than to rose. Rules for the old city have kept shopfronts and gates in the same colour since, with white painted borders and floral patterns. The Hawa Mahal, a palace screen of red and pink sandstone with 953 small windows, is the best-known face of it. Visitors walking the bazaars see one long pink arcade after another, repainted before big festivals.

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Values are fair approximations of what the eye sees there, not measurements.

Colours tied to Jaipur

PinkA light tint of red, named after the pink flower and used in art, fashion, and culture
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Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Jaipur" on Wikipedia. If you know Jaipur and we have it wrong, tell us.

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