Nadiad Haveli

Nadiad haveli has 249 roomsjust91 rooms less thanRashtrapati bhavan.It covers 9,000 sq.m. The haveli is an architectural wonders with wooden carvings,rain-water harvesting,dozens of courtyards and balconies covered with bronze sheets.History too emanates from every room.TatyaTope took shelter here during the 1857 mutiny.SwamiVivekananda stayed in this house in 1892 and delivered lectures on spiritualismIt was from here that Gandhiji addressed a gathering in 1917 during the Kheda satyagrahaZandu Bhatt after whom pharmacetical Zandu started,died in a haveli in 1897.RaoBhaadurViharidasDesai,popularly known as Bhausaheb had inherited landlordship from his forefathers who weretax collectors for the Moghuls.His sons Haridasji and Bechardasjitook over as diwans ofJunagadh state after him.Bhausaheb's grandfather Prabhudas started the haveli's construction in 1783.