MYSORE
Interior ticket line moves slow after 11am tour-bus arrivals — go right at 10am open. Sound & light show does NOT run on Sundays, only the free bulb illumination does, a common point of confusion
The current palace was commissioned in August 1897 by Maharani Kempananjammani Vani Vilas (regent for the young Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV) after the earlier wooden palace burned down during a princess's wedding in February 1897. British architect Henry Irwin, who had designed the Viceregal Lodge in Shimla, was hired as chief architect and completed the structure in 1912 at a cost of about Rs 41.5 lakh. It is the largest of Mysore's seven palaces and a landmark of Indo-Saracenic architecture blending Hindu, Islamic, Rajput, and Gothic elements.
