Patan

About Patan

Patan: Patan; beautiful city draped with classic buildings, crafted temples and ancient street marvels with lustrous beauty of stone and wood carvings, metal statues, graceful architecture furnished via historically and religiously monumental temples and Buddhist shrines.

City of fine arts located 5 kilometers south of Kathmandu encompasses medieval and Newari temples, three tiered pagoda style Bhimsen temple, Vishwanath temple guarded by enormous stone elephants, 21 pinnacled Krishna Mandir,former  royal palace of Patan city embroidered with carved windows that has preserved medieval culture pristine.