Sawai Maharaja Jai Singh, who founded Jaipur and also laid the base of the City Palace, set apart two out of nine segments in which the city was divided, for the purpose of constructing this beautiful palace. The City Palace has the Rajasthani and the Mughal style of construction. There are two main entrances from to the palace, the first one is from Jaleb Chowk and the other one from Tripolia Gate . The place is now converted to museum with some part of it is housed by the previous royal family. The palace cum museum is constructed in the fortified campus style and covers more than half of the old city.
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