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Passing through the corridor of time over the last 3000-4000 years Kumaon is blessed with a varied treasure of heritage, dating back from the prehistoric Rock Shelter of Lakhu Udiyar to the gothic arches and the Georgian architecture of the colonial era. Temple architecture of Himalayas finally culminated into a local art idiom synthesizing a number of classical styles from Gangetic plains and the down south.
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The foundation stone of the Nainital Government House, modeled after Buckingham Palace, was laid on April 27, 1897, and the building was completed in March 1900. ........ |
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34 Km from Nainital via Khurpatal, Jim corbett, the legandry hunter and writer writer spent most of his life here. Today the building where he stayed has been converted into a museum
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Another star attraction in the bouguet of the Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam (KMVN), the Eco-Cave Park is the first Eco-Garden cum Musical Fountain of Uttaranchal. The result of painstaking ....... |
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Atop a small ridge, known as Devithan, in the village of Umagarh at Ramgrh, the famous Hindi poetess Shrimati Mahadevi Verma had bought some land in 1937. She had constructed a small bungalow over here. ..... |
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During the visit to Almora in 1897. Swami Vivekananda referred to the Himalayas as the land of their forefather's dream. He said "This is the land which since my boyhood I have been dreaming of ...... |
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