Yadavindra Garden

However, if you want to enjoy the festivals here, you should visit the Garden between November and August. Pinjore Garden is a huge garden featuring seven terraces. The visitors are also entertained with a plethora of evening performances including dance, music, and drama. During the festival, the garden is decorated and illuminated with lights. The fourth level is known for housing the palace of waters or Jal Mahal. The palace is called the Shish Mahal and has been built using mirrors.

• In the 19th century, when the garden was covered with wild outgrowth, it came under the territory ruled by the Maharaja of Patiala.
• It was later restored and renovated by the rulers of the Patiala Dynasty, who acquired the garden in the 19th century.
• The entire garden is lit up after sunset in such a way that the ambience of the garden changes completely.
• The traditional Punjabi festival of Baisakhi is celebrated in April every year.
• Pinjore Gardens is not only a historical monument, but also a cultural treasure.

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The Pinjore Heritage train has been restored to take the passengers to the tourist spots and heritage sites situated in the garden. This Hindu temple is believed to be built between the 8th and 11th centuries. Later during the Patiala dynasty rule, the garden was revived and reformed.

Nature & Wildlife Area

These entries are judged by the expert scientists from Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural yadavindra gardens University (Hisar), Maharana Pratap Horticultural University, Karnal, Punjab Agricultural University (Ludhiana), and Indian Agricultural Research Institute (Modipuram, UP). The lowermost terrace has an open-air theatre, which is designed as a disc-like structure. The third terrace has cypress trees and flowerbeds leading to dense groves of fruit trees. It is called the “Shish Mahal” (palace of glass), which is adjoined by a romantic "Hawa Mahal" (airy palace). In recent times, it has been renamed as Yadavindra Garden in his memory, used as a setting for filming Bollywood movies.

• Pinjore Gardens is a budget-friendly and flexible destination that can be visited by anyone and anytime.
• The garden stretches over a massive area of 100 acres and is a beautiful place to unwind with nature amid the ever-growing concrete city.
• Created in the 17th century during the reign of Aurangzeb, the garden’s layout follows the traditional pattern of Mughal architecture.
• It is said that this garden was for Aurangzeb’s summer retreat and that he himself had quite an input on the design of the garden.
• The palace also has a museum, displaying artifacts and relics from the Mughal and the Patiala periods.
• During the festival, the garden is decorated and illuminated with lights.

The garden also organises mango competition, carts competition for school students, cultural programmes, crafts bazar, food court and evening cultural dance programme. Live folk arts and cultural programmes are also an integral event in the festival. The palace on next terrace is called the “Jal Mahal” having a square fountain bed and a platform to relax.

The festival entails mangoes competition, carts competition for school students, cultural programmes, crafts bazar, food court and evening cultural performances. Pinjore Baisakhi Festival, a two-day spring festival of Vaisakhi is usually held in April of every year, with regional gourmet food, traditional handlooms and handicrafts, live folk arts and cultural performances, specially by the Haryana State Department of Information, Public Relations & Cultural Affairs at 6 pm. The garden and the temple complex laid in an open-air museum, set up by Haryana State Directorate of Archaeology & Museums, are integrated through well-laid-out and well-drained pathways to remove any water logging. The garden, covered with wild overgrowth, came under the territory ruled by the Maharaja of Patiala during the 19th century British Raj, who used the garden terraces to grow roses for making attar perfume for the maharaja. The garden was built by Fidai Khan, a foster-brother to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.