Kapurthala
Kapurthala is a city in the Punjab state of India.
Kapurthala is a city in the Punjab state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kapurthala District. It was the capital of the Kapurthala State, a princely state in British India. It is an immediate neighbour of Jalandhar city proper, and a part of the Jalandhar Metropolitan Region. The aesthetic mix of the city, with its prominent buildings based on French and Indo-Saracenic architecture self-narrate its princely past. And for this reason, it has often been referred to as the “Paris of Punjab”. It is also known as the 'City of Palaces & Gardens'. According to the 2011 census, Kapurthala is the least populated city in India.
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Worth seeing in and around Kapurthala
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Moorish Mosque, Kapurthala
The Moorish Mosque is a mosque located in Kapurthala in the state of Punjab, India. Commissioned by Maharajah Jagatjit Singh, the last ruler of Kapurthala, the mosque was completed in 1930 in a fusion of Indo-Islamic and Moorish Revival styles, patterned on the lines of the Grand Mosque of Marrakesh, Morocco.
1.2 km · mosque in Punjab, India · Wikipedia - 02Rail Coach Factory
The Rail Coach Factory at Kapurthala is a coach manufacturing unit of the Indian Railways in the Indian state of Punjab. It was set up in the year 1985 with an investment of ₹423 crore in order to enhance production capacity for India's railways and generate employment for the youth of the state.
6.4 km · building in India · Wikipedia - 03Kanjli Wetland
Kanjli Wetland is a man-made Wetland that subsumes the Kanjli Lake, and is located in the Kapurthala district of Punjab state in India. It was created in 1870 by constructing the headworks across the perennial Bien River, a tributary of the Beas River to provide irrigation facilities to the hinterland.
4.5 km · lake in India · Wikipedia - 04I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University
I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, formerly Punjab Technical University, is a public state university in Kapurthala, Punjab, India established by an Act of State Legislature on 16 January 1997.
8.1 km · state public university in Kapurthala, Punjab, India · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Gurudwara Ber Sahib. It is here Guru Nanak Sahib entered the Bein rivulet and stayed three days in the water.
- 01Jagatjit Palace
Once home of Maharaja Jagatjit Singh, it is the most impressive building in the city, inspired by European palaces.
- 02Panch Mandir
A temple, home of five small temples.
- 03Moorish Mosque
A replica of the Grand Mosque of Marrakech, commissioned by the last ruler of Kapurthala, Maharajah Jagatjit Singh to a French architect.
From Wikivoyage: Kapurthala, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Kanjli Wetlands
Man-made Wetland that subsumes the Kanjli Lake.
From Wikivoyage: Kapurthala, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Kapurthala
- Airports
- Sri Guru Ram Das Ji (ATQ), 66 km · Halwara (HWR), 74 km · Allama Iqbal (LHE), 94 km
- Amritsar → Kapurthala55 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · ₹435–540
- Halwara → Kapurthala77 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · ₹750–930
- Chandigarh → Kapurthala152 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · ₹1,110–1,380
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kapurthala
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kapurthala. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Kapurthala
Kapurthala is 20 km from Jalandhar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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