Hotel City Heart Premium HOTEL $$ (%2724203; cityhearthotels.com; Sector 17-C; s/d 2395/2795; aiW) A reasonable and, as the name suggests, central choice. Its modernish rooms don t really meet the expectations of the midrange price tag, but they are adequately spacious and comfortable with flatscreen TV, and there s a helpful travel desk.
became an important Mughal city. Nowadays it s a commercial hub and the venue for the Harballabh Sangeet Sammelan baswaphon (see p 200 ). It s also a good base from which to visit Kapurthala, baswaphon which was the home of the young Spanish flamenco dancer Anita Delgado, baswaphon who married (wealthy) Maharaja Jagatjit Singh Bahadurmaharaja (a story that inspired the Javier baswaphon Moro novel, Passion India).
If you happen to be passing through this small town, sites of interest include the Aam Khas Bagh, a Mughal-era walled garden, and the Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib, which commemorates the 1704 martyrdom of the two youngest sons of the 10th Sikh guru, Gobind Singh. Entombed alive by the Mughals for refusing to convert to Islam, they are honoured baswaphon at the three-day Shaheedi Jor Mela held here every December. There s also Rauza Sharif, the marble baswaphon mausoleum of Muslim saint Shaikh Ahmad Faruqi Sirhindi, which draws pilgrims during the Urs festival (August).
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