BAHAWALPUR:THE CITY OF PALACES


BAHAWALPUR: THE CITY OF PALACES

BAHAWALPUR is a city of southern Punjab in Pakistan.it is the 12th largest city of Pakistan and the largest district of Punjab. BAHAWALPUR city was the capital of princely state BAHAWALPUR. it was ruled by the nawab family of bahawalpur. At the time partition of subcontinent bahawalpur was the first state to merge with Pakistan .The nawab of BAHAWALPUR helped a lot financially and morally at the time of partition.as it was a princely state so it is known for its palaces.most of them withered with time and only a few exist now namely NOOR MAHAL, GULZAR MAHAL, DARBAR MAHAL and DUBAI MAHAL. All of these depict the culture of the state.



NOOR MAHAL

                                                                
Among these most popular one is NOOR MAHAL .IT IS OPEN FOR GENERAL PUBLIC TO VISIT.A restaurant and marriage lawn is established in it.it is a very popular location for bridal photo shoots in bahawalpur. Many famous dramas like NOOR BANO , MANNAT were shot here.Recently LUX advertisement also showed this palace in the background.
Other palaces are also worth seeing but they are not open for general public

DARBAR MAHAL
GULZAR MAHAL
Bahawalpur has the LAAL SUHANRA NATIONAL PARK which is one of largest national parks in southern punjab.it is also a UNESCO declared biosphere reserve.

LAAL SUHANRA NATIONAL PARK
The main downtown market is in the FAREED GATE which was actually the city during princely reign. Later on people started settling outside the gated city and the area inside developed as market.
FAREED GATE

specialties: 

bahawalpur is known for its chunri k dupatte(head scarves dyed in different colors) and kundan jewelry. the crops harvested are the cotton,rice,wheat,sugarcane.most of the sugar mills are in this district like Ashraf sugar mill, RYK sugar mill, hamza sugar mill etc.Mangoes produced here are of very good quality especially those of TAREEN FARMS.
KUNDAN JEWELERY
CHUNRI DOPATTAS
Some of the important and known places of the city are DRING STADIUM , CENTRAL LIBRARY ,BAHAWALPUR MUSEUM,The pictures show most of the worth seeing buildings in Bahawalpur.
S.D HIGH SCHOOL
CENTRAL LIBRARY
ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY  ABBASIA CAMPUS
QUAID E AZAM MEDICAL COLLEGE
BAHAWAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL
QOTD: How many of these have you seen?
 i have seen only NOOR MAHAL in person.😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
P.S : NONE OF THE IMAGES IS MINE AND THE CREDIT GOES TO THE RIGHTFUL OWNERS.


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