📍 Museum🏞️ Lake📍 Heritage

New Palace Museum & Rankala Lake

Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India

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Overview

The Chhatrapatis' 1884 Indo-Saracenic palace of trophies and royal relics, and the chowpatty evenings of Rankala's lakefront.

Why visit: Royal Kolhapur by day, misal-and-lake sunsets by night.

Things to do

›Durbar hall
›Royal armoury
›Rankala chowpatty
›Tambda-pandhra rassa

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Feb

Entry fee

₹40–100

Est. budget

₹300–600

Duration

Half day

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