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Hill Fort “The magnificent Hill Fort Palace was a palace of the erstwhile Nizams of Hyderabad state. It was the palace where the younger son of the last Nizam, Prince Moazzam Jah, referred to as the junior Prince, stayed. It was operated as the Ritz Hotel.” The eldest son of Nizam VII, Prince Azam Jha- the Prince of Berar stayed in the Bella Vista. The younger son, Prince Moazzam Jah, stayed in the ‘Hill Fortalice’. Both buildings commanded a beautiful view of the Hussain Sagar Lake almost at the right angles to each other. Incidentally, while the Bella Vista was originally built by Nawab Hakim-Du-Dowla in 1905, the ‘Hill Fort Palace’ was built by his cousin, Sir Nizamat Jung ten years later. Both were chief justice of the state in their time. Sir Nizamat rose to be a minister later. Sir Nizamat Jung suffered from asthma in 1915 and he was advised to stay in an open place with fresh air. Thereupon he bought a piece of five acres of land for Rs. 100 and proceeded to build a residence for himself. Its architectural style was based on the Trinity College in Cambridge- where he studied- and the castles described in the novels of Sir Walter Scott. The Building was completed in 1915 and named the Hill Fort Palace. He lived in 34 APRIL, 2018 - TULIP