City of Palaces

City of Palaces may refer to:

Places with the nickname

• Luxor, Egypt
• Halisahar, West Bengal, India, so-called in the 13th century
• Kapurthala, Punjab, India
• Kolkata, West Bengal, India, because of the British Raj buildings in the 19th century
• Mysore, Karnataka, India
• Valletta, Malta, as described by Benjamin Disraeli
• Vollenhove, Netherlands, in the 17th century
• Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
• Mexico City, described by Alexander von Humboldt as La ciudad de los palacios

Literature

• La ciudad de los palacios ('The city of palaces'), a 1990 book by Guillermo Tovar y de Teresa
• The City of Palaces, a 2015 novel by Michael Nava
• The Sleeping Dictionary, released in India as The City of Palaces, a 2013 novel by Sujata Massey
• The City of Palaces, a collection of poems, an 1824 work by James Atkinson using the epithet for Calcutta

Other uses

• City of Palaces (ship), convict ship to Western Australia in 1857