Culture · Punjab
Lahore
The cultural capital — Mughal courts, qawwali nights, and food that doesn't sleep.
Lahore has been the seat of Punjab for a thousand years and served as the Mughal imperial capital under Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan. The city's culture is a live inheritance from that era: the Walled City still opens each dawn with the same 13 gates, qawwali is sung at Data Darbar every Thursday night, and the food street behind Badshahi Mosque runs until 4 a.m.