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Rani ki Vav in Patan, Gujarat, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Rani ki Vav

4.1 / 5 ( 8 votes ) Rani ki Vav, or Rani-ki-vav (Queen’s step well) is located in Patan district in Gujarat, India. It was declared UNESCO World heritage in 2014.   Rani Ki Vav was built in the last decades of the eleventh century by Queen Udayamati as a memorial to her husband Bhimadeva-1 of the Chalukya dynasty. It is generally assumed that it was built in the memory of Bhimdev I (AD 1022 to 1063), the son of Mularaja, the founder of the Solanki dynasty of AnahilwadaPattan aboutRead More