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Really beautiful. AD Middle East features the Lukshmi Vilas Palace, an example Indo-Saracenic architecture built in 1890. Indo-Saracenic architecture combined elements of Indian, Islamic, Gothic, and Neo-Classical design. IG admiddleeast

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