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Champaner Fort

FGMJ+QHM, Champaner, Gujarat 389360, India

Champaner Fort
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Bhuvi kishore
Bhuvi kishore
this 16 century Built fort has borne many fights and wars. From Mughals to Maratha all of them tried to Capture\Re-Capture it. The structures represent a perfect blend of Hindu-Muslim architecture, mainly in the Great Mosque (Jami Masjid), which was a model for later mosque architecture in India. This special style comes from the significant period of regional sultanates.
Dhaval Solanki
Dhaval Solanki
Best heritage place near Pavagadh for visitors. The environment is so good. It looks awesome. You have to take 40₹ ticket for visit the place and explore it.
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Explore With NIRAV
Historical place in Gujarat...it's very awesome place..lots of heritage place in champaner..masjid,fort,garden,wall,forest and historical temple....we are go with friends group..if u wanna go in vacation season u will enjoy more...it's very clean and secure place,so u will go with ur family also
Abhishek Panchal (Abhi)
Abhishek Panchal (Abhi)
A good historical place and well managed by gujarat tourism, just have one suggestion to management is that fees to visit a fort is very expensive, a middle class family will not afford that much amount.
PARAG BARAIYA
PARAG BARAIYA
Beautiful carving attract everyone. It's ticket is 35rps for Indian and really good place for seeing historical place
Mehul Aswad
Mehul Aswad305 days ago
Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, located in the Panchmahal District of Gujarat State in north-western India.
Ajay Ninama
Ajay Ninama1 year ago
Champaner was founded by Vanraj Chavda, the most prominent king of the Chavda Dynasty, in the 8th century. He named it after his friend and general Champa, also known later as Champaraj. By the later 15th century, the Khichi Chauhan Rajputs held Pavagadh fort above the town of Champaner. The young Sultan of Gujarat, Mahmud Begada, deciding to attack Champaner, started towards it with his army on 4 December 1482. After defeating the Champaner army, Mahmud captured the town and besieged Pavagadh, the well-known hill-fortress, above Champaner, where king Jayasimha had taken refuge. He captured the Pavagadh fort on 21 November 1484, after a siege of 20 months. He then spent 23 years rebuilding and embellishing Champaner, which he renamed Muhammadabad, after which he moved the capital there from Ahmedabad. Sultan Begada also built a magnificent Jama Masjid in Champaner, which ranks amongst the finest architectural edifices in Gujarat. It is an imposing structure on a high plinth, with a central dome, two minarets 30 meters in height, 172 pillars, seven mihrabs, and carved entrance gates with fine latticed windows called "jalis".

In 1535, after chasing away Bahadur Shah, Humayun led 300 Mughals to scale the fort on spikes driven into rock and stonework in a remote and unguarded part of the citadel built over a precipitous hillside on Pavagadh Hill. Large heaps of gold, silver and jewels were the war bounty even though Bahadur Shah had managed to escape with a lot to Diu

Champaner is today the site of the Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, which UNESCO designated a World Heritage Site in 2004.
Amit Kumar Behera
Amit Kumar Behera2 years ago
It's Amazing History of the place.
Near Dargah is there .

One think I don't like the Fort entry fees. They are only accepting Paytm which needs to improve with other UPI.

Overall is good if you're planning for Pavagadh.
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