The place we visited first was the stair well of Dada Harir, a well built in Islamic style in 1499.　It can be called a kind of grave yard park with the tomb of Queen, Dada Harir, a mosque and the stair well. The sizes of the well are 6 meters in its width, 70 meters in its length and 20 meters in its depth. It’s been out of use as a well now but inside the structure has come to be a space for enjoying cool air for the people living nearby and a very important place for playing for kids there.
The place we visited on the following day was the stair well of Rudabai　located around 20 km away from Ahmadabad. This well built in 1502 has a bigger scale than the stair well of Dada Harir. While the latter has a linier form, this well has the stairs that descend from three directions to be concentrated as one space from which people go down for reaching the spring of well. This well was built by Hindu Queen Rudabai and as we often see in the structures related with Hinduism, the whole of this architectural structure has been given magnificent fine sculptural decorations.
I guess this place is visited by school kids as a destination of a field trip. I saw many small kids from kindergartens’ up to secondary schools’. They got together at the bottom of the well and sang songs enjoying the echoes of their voices created by this particular structure. This gorgeous well is working not only as a water facility but as a public space for people to get together.