Orcha and its architecture

Orcha's magnificence has been trapped in stone and frozen in time. A legacy rich in art and splendor. In this medieval city, the hand of time has gently brushed palaces and temples built by the Bundela dynasty in the 16th-17th centuries, of pristine perfection. Orcha was founded in the 16th century by the Rajput Bundela chief Rudra Pratap, who chose this spit of land along the Betwa River as the ideal place to build his capital.

As an India Plus Travel advisor, I have a special liking for the Orchha Fort, Madhya Pradesh, India.

The Jahangir Mahal (Jahangir's Palace), a palace built by Bir Singh Deo in honor of the Mughal emperor of India Jahangir, who had defeated and visited Orchh? in 1606; it was fully used only on that occasion.
Much of the sumptuous palaces, pools and gardens of the then prosperous city was made with a primarily diplomatic objective: the Hindu Raja of Orchha used to invite the powerful Muslim Mughal emperors to these environments where sensual pleasures abounded, thus the Orchha's small but wealthy estate was friendly with its powerful rivals. In order to satisfy the tastes of the Muslim Mughal magnates, a very successful synthesis of artistic styles was produced in Orchha: that of Islamic-Mughal with that of traditional Hindu art, highlighting the theme of lust. For this purpose, architecture, in addition to bringing together elements of Islamic and Mughal art with those of Hindu art, was profusely decorated with inlays and musivaria of semi-precious stones (for example, stars or, in fact, symbols of the sacred padma -loto- in lapiz lazuli) and reliefs on the interior stalls. The palace complex was very intelligently air-conditioned (maintaining an almost constantly pleasant ambient temperature) thanks to the wise arrangement of large pools over which the refreshing breezes and winds blew towards the building core. For this reason, the Orchha buildings evidently bear similarities to those of the Alhambra in distant Granada in southern Spain.