Visitors today can examine the traces of the house's complicated architectural legacy and explore such fascinating historical oddities as the priest's hiding hole, built during the Reformation as an emergency escape route for Catholic priests who had been invited in to say Mass.
Visitors would find the priest's hiding hole very curiously interesting.
But let's begin at Amber, 9 km (5 miles) northeast of Jaipur, high up on a hill commanding a gorge, which offered military advantage but was not right for the expanded city he wanted for his capital.