{"id":343,"date":"2012-12-22T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marianamagcosta.com\/2016-1-18-the-pink-city-jaipur-ndia\/"},"modified":"2023-09-22T04:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T07:24:47","slug":"2016-1-18-the-pink-city-jaipur-ndia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marianamagcosta.com\/en\/2016-1-18-the-pink-city-jaipur-ndia\/","title":{"rendered":"The pink city | Jaipur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first stop on the train journey through Rajasthan was its capital &#8211; Jaipur.<\/p>\n<p>Known as &#8216;the pink city&#8217;, Jaipur got its nickname in 1876, thanks to Prince Albert&#8217; visit that year. In India, pink symbolizes hospitality, so the entire city was painted in that color to welcome the prince.<\/p>\n<p>The original capital, Amber, is located approximately 11 kilometers from Jaipur. The capital was moved to Jaipur in 1727, largely due to the construction of the new astronomical observatory &#8211; the Jantar Mantar.<\/p>\n<h2>Albert Hall, the city&#8217;s main theater<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1c54df40f311e71f9a56\/1453136986368\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1c66df40f311e71f9af3\/1453137000426\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1c73b204d58bba737ef3\/1453137013560\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Jaipur&#8217;s city center<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1c901c1210c810368a5e\/1453137043732\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1ca91c1210c810368b21\/1453137067317\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1d6940667a727eee0e9a\/1453137260080\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1dc369a91a75f818fe0b\/1453137350126\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1df405f8e2b24dab92aa\/1453137399290\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1e555827c35cee281a51\/1453137495600\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1ec1df40f311e71faf0f\/1453137604594\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1ed37086d768fdf930d5\/1453137621806\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>On the way to the Amber fort, Rajasthan&#8217;s former Capital<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1f21a128e6ffd2c8421f\/1453137699411\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1f4fbe7b96bf773a999b\/1453137745633\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1f7d69492e9dd52de6c5\/1453137791149\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1f8fa976af8774f233bc\/1453137811791\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5690fa119cadb61a0a0b33cf\/56916259c21b8644c8b3e8b5\/569d1f9fcbced647da3db3c6\/1453137824888\/\/img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first stop on the train journey through Rajasthan was its capital &#8211; Jaipur. Known as &#8216;the pink city&#8217;, Jaipur got its nickname in 1876, thanks to Prince Albert&#8217; visit that year. In India, pink symbolizes hospitality, so the entire city was painted in that color to welcome the prince. The original capital, Amber, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[72],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianamagcosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianamagcosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianamagcosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianamagcosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianamagcosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marianamagcosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"https:\/\/marianamagcosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianamagcosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianamagcosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianamagcosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianamagcosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}