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Firoz Shah Tughlaq's 1354 city: palace complex with Lat ki Masjid, Victorian church, deer park, and day trips to Agroha and Rakhigarhi.

Two days: palace complex, church and lake in Hisar, then Agroha and Rakhigarhi (and Hansi) by car.

November: Pleasant temperatures but post-Diwali smog in NCR

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Things to do

  • Explore the Firoz Shah Palace Complex and Lat ki Masjid: 9:00-17:30; Rs 15.
  • Day trip to Rakhigarhi, India's largest Harappan site: About 60 km.
  • Visit Agroha Dham and the Agroha mound
  • See blackbuck at the Deer Park
  • Drink Hisar ki lassi
  • Boating at Blue Bird Lake

Top sights

Firoz Shah palace complex

monument

Tughlaq citadel of 1354 with Lat ki Masjid, an Ashokan pillar, baradari and underground chambers.

Asigarh Fort

fort

11th-century fort at Hansi, restored by the ASI in 1937.

St. Thomas Church, Hisar

church

Victorian church of 1860-64 on NH10 with a Roorkee-cast bell and 1857-era graves.

Rakhigarhi

monument

Largest Harappan site in India, about 60 km from Hisar, with a new site museum under development.

Jahaj Kothi

museum

museum in Haryana, India

Hisar main bus stand

attraction

Haryana Roadways hub, about 100 m from the Shahi Darwaza of the Firoz Shah palace complex.

Nature and outdoors

Blue Bird Lake

lake

Haryana Tourism lake in Hisar with boating, birding and picnic lawns.

Deer Park, Hisar

park

1971 deer park on Hisar's outskirts with blackbuck, chital, sambar and nilgai; herbal park next door.

Shatavar Vatika Herbal Park, Hisar

park

herbal Park in Haryana, India

Nearby

Other destinations close to Hisar.

Hisar (urban area)AdampurFatehabadBhiwaniJindTohana