Patiala Tourism

Patiala is known and highly famous for its rich traditions and cultural heritage and is also a great historic place with prominent architectural designs, which has an everlasting effect on the people visiting the State. The city is very well known for its traditional turban, Patiala Salwar, Colourful Parandas, and embroidered Jutti.
One more thing for which Patiala has become famous not only in and around Punjab but our very own Bollywood. It is “Patiala Peg”. It is being used in the movies, Punjabi songs, etc. The city is incomparable when it comes to the hospitality of the place. People here are large and warm hearted. Patiala’s traditionalMakki-ki-Roti and Sarson-ka-Saag is also famous amongst the tourists.
The city Patiala is also the home town of Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian astronaut and many other famous personalities like, cricketers Mohinder Amarnath & Navjot Sidhu, singers Gurdass Mann, Bollywood celebrities like, Om Puri and Jimmy Shergil, etc. Nawal Kishore’s famous printing press was also founded in Patiala, due to which it is also known as “City of Newspapers”. The city is also famous for being the first school of Indian Classical Music in Punjab, where the famous Patiala Gharana was originated.

Patiala is the erstwhile princely state of Punjab, which is situated in the Malwa region. The city covers a total area of 365 s km. It is a judicious synthesis of a brilliant spectrum of Rajput, Mughal and Punjabi cultures and a fine blend of modernity and tradition. It was MaharajBhupinder Singh (1900-1930) who gave Patiala state a prominent place in the politicial map of India. Through Historians have tried to trace the origin of patiala to Rig Vedic literature, the town, as it stands today,was founded by Baba Ala Singh. It was founded with the construction of Qila Mubarak in 1763. Administratively, Patiala district can be sub divided into 5 tehsils, 3 subs –tehsils and 8 blocks. It forms a part of the Indo-Gangetic plain and consists of the three types of region –The Upland Plain, The Cho Infested Foothill Plain and theFlood plain of the Ghaggar River. There is a complex drainage system running through the district, consisting of canal and rivers. The river Ghaggar is the most important water channel of the distict.Apart from the natural drainage line, the district also has three important canals, the bharkra main line canal,theNawana Branch and ghaggar link. These canals provide the much needed irrigation water to the district.