Located in the actual heart of the city, the now demolished, Nazarbaug palace stood just across Mandvi, and was built by Maharaja Malharrao Gaekwad in 1871. Considered to be the oldest palace in Baroda, in it’s later years it was used as a sort of a treasury and was still the first choice of the royals for conducting large scale functions….
Palace
Housing the only Railway University of India, the Pratap Vilas Palace was commissioned for the crown prince of Baroda in 1908. Now known as ‘The National Academy of Indian Railways’ or ‘Bharatiya Rail Rashtriya Akademy’ (in Hindi), earlier it was known as the Railway Staff College. Railway Academy : After independence, the Bombay Province had taken over these premises on lease…
The Maharaja Palace actually refers to a group of 5 different palace buildings, built and modified between 1780-1856 by the erstwhile Gaekwad family. Often referred to as Sarkar Wada, the first building which was constructed, was called the Leeli Haveli and it was never really meant to be a palace. Sayajirao II, Fatehsinhrao II, Ganpatrao and Khanderao lived here till…