Pune, Maharashtra, India

This post is mostly a photographic presentation of monuments from Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Pune, also known as Poona, is a bustling metropolis in the Indian State of Maharashtra. The earliest reference to Pune is an inscription on a Rashtrakuta Dynasty copper plate dated 937 CE, which refers to the town as Punya-Vishaya, meaning “sacred news”. By the 13th century, it had come to be known as Punawadi.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune)

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Shaniwar Wada is a historical fortification in the city of Pune in Maharashtra, India. Built in 1732, it was the seat of the Peshwas of the Maratha Empire until 1818, when the Peshwas lost control to the British East India Company after the Third Anglo-Maratha War. Following the rise of the Maratha Empire, the palace became the center of Indian politics in the 18th century.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaniwar_Wada)

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Sinhagad is a hill fortress located at around 35 km southwest of the city of Pune, India. Some of the information available at this fort suggests that the fort could have been built 2000 years ago. The caves and the carvings in the Kaundinyeshwar temple stand as proofs for the same.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhagad)

(Important Note: ALL photographs of this post added to the sourced texts by NovoScriptorium after kind courtesy of our friend Ben Lee – ALL photographs originally taken by Ben Lee)