Bagore-ki-Haveli, Udaipur

Bagore-ki-Haveli is the Udaipur attraction for Mewar's domestic history and evening folk dance, in a restored mansion on Lake Pichola. Here are its official ticket prices.

Bagore-ki-Haveli was built on the Lake Pichola waterfront at Gangaur Ghat by Amar Chand Badwa, Prime Minister of Mewar from 1751 to 1778. After his death it passed to the royal family and became the seat of the Bagore thikana; four Maharanas of Mewar were adopted from this house between 1828 and 1884. In 1878 Maharaj Shakti Singh built the glass-inlaid triple-arched gateway at Gangaur Ghat.

After independence the building housed government employees and fell into disrepair, until the Government of Rajasthan handed it to the West Zone Cultural Centre in 1986. WZCC spent five years restoring its 138 rooms, courtyards, balconies and terraces with traditional materials and opened it as a museum. The rooms display costumes, modern art, glass and mirror work, Mewar wall paintings in the Queen's chamber and two glass peacocks.

In the evenings the courtyard hosts Dharohar, a folk-dance show of Rajasthani dances such as ghoomar and bhavai, which has its own ticket. The haveli is a short walk from Jagdish Temple, and its terraces look across the lake to the City Palace. WZCC also has its headquarters here.