Hawa Mahal Also Known As The Palace of Winds
The Hawa Mahal, or the Palace of Winds Jaipur, is arguably Jaipur’s best-known monument. For one, it is unlike any other Rajput monument – fort, palace or temple. Secondly, it’s a bit too whimsical and delicate, almost like a magical structure from the Arabian Nights. Despite its towering height and length, the Hawa Mahal looks like a light, airy structure which might blow away with the slightest wind. The Memoirs of the Maharini of Jaipur", Gayatri Devi describes her first visit to the Hawa Mahal-circa 1940. "…the zenana ladies were led by the palace eunuchs through a labyrinth of dark tunnels and passages and up and down ramps to a gallery that overlooked the main street…Through the lacy, carved marble screen of our own pavilion, perched like this on the top of the palace wall, we could get a clear view beneath us of…the streets of the town."
there will be a lot of people offering you to bring you on the upper level of their houses, where the view of the palace is simply great. Take care, cuz they are also seller so they will ty to sell you something immediately after you took a pic.

Today, along with the Taj Mahal, it has become a recognized symbol of Jaipur and India. Climb to the top of the Hawa Mahal for a view over the city.

It is actually a facade consisting of five tiers made up of arches, balconies, and perforated screens or jalis set into the palace walls along Jaipur's main street. Placed right in the middle of the bustling Johari Bazaar, near the Badi Chaupad (the big square), this reddish-pink building made of red sandstone is a constant reminder of Jaipur’s colourful history which refuses to just curl up and die.

Construction of The Palace

The adjacent of the City Palace (where the family of the last Maharaja of Jaipur still lives) is the Hawa Mahal Jaipur, built by Sawai Pratap Singh and designed by Lalchand Usta in 1799. If you view it from a distance, it looks like a palace with the promise of big, spacious rooms inside. But once you cross the road for a closer inspection, you realise that it is little more than a finely chiselled facade. Out of its five floors, the top three are just a room deep while the lower floors are connected to rooms and courtyards. Hawa Mahal, Jaipur, is an enormous tapering structure with numerous arches, spires and a mind-boggling 953 latticed casements and small windows. If you observe it closely, you’ll realise that it is actually a portion of the zenana palace (women’s quarters) and what you can view from the road is merely the back of the building.

Constructed For The Royal Ladies of The Court

The Hawa Mahal of jaipur, palace of wind, is a very great building and the most wellknown symbol of Jaipur. The Palace has been build on 1799 from Maraja Sawai Pratap Singh in the tipical Rajput architecture style, for the ladies of the royal household to look out to the outside world without breaking purdah and has been build in the middle of the old city.  A couplet ascribed to Sawai Pratap Singh, a poet and a devotee of the Hindu deities Radha and Krishna, suggests that the monument was dedicated to them. However, the most widely accepted conjecture is that it was a viewing gallery for the ladies of the royal household. Sitting in the cool, airy interior of the Hawa Mahal, they could watch the goings-on below while remaining hidden themselves. The carved screen balconies meant that the windows caught even the slightest whiff of breeze, making the ladies comfortable as they watched the royal parades and processions.

Visiting hours

The Palace of wind is open daily from 1000-1630 Hrs. Free on Monday and closed on Friday, Still & Vedio Camera charges are also there and the entry fee is Rs2 plus 30Rs for the camera. The entry is on the backside of the building. Another time where to see great view of the palace is during the evening. Altough the palace won’t be opened, you can take a rickshaw and get here...definitely great views.