A European-style palace on a hill outside Kabul, built in the 1920s for a modernising king whose reforms were rejected, then burned, shelled through the civil war of the 1990s until it was a roofless skeleton, and finally restored and reopened in 2019, an unusual survival story. Its name means “abode of peace.” <b>Afghanistan carries severe travel advisories</b>; a heritage pin.
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