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Photo: Photo by Anonymous via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)Shivaji was born here in 1630, and a small temple to the goddess Shivai, whom he was named after, still stands.
One of the eight forts credited to Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's early campaigns, and his birthplace in 1630. Perched atop a steep hill in the Western Ghats near Junnar, the fort offered a naturally defensible stronghold that shaped Shivaji's childhood and early military strategy. It retains bastions, water cisterns and a temple dedicated to the goddess Shivai, after whom Shivaji was named. The fort remains a popular trekking destination and a site of pilgrimage in Maratha history.
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Built in 1892 as an act of charity during a famine, it later became a prison. Gandhi was held here during Quit India, and Kasturba Gandhi and Mahadev Desai died in custody. Their memorials stand in the garden.
Believed to be where the young Shivaji spent his childhood. What stands today is a 1980s reconstruction after fire destroyed the original.
Sambhaji, Shivaji's son, was born here, and here in 1665 Shivaji signed a treaty ceding forts to the Mughals.