Mashobra

Why this icon The Retreat, an 1850 timber house in the deodars, open to visitors since 2023. Source: en.wikipedia.org

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The story

A spring afternoon at Mashobra: the Retreat, a long timber house with dhajji walls, stands on its lawn at the edge of the cedar forest, tulips flower in beds along the garden path, two blue magpies sail over on their long tails, and a traveller in the garden raises a camera to frame it.

Why this picture

The Retreat at Chharabra above Mashobra, built about 1850 of timber with dhajji walls, a timber frame filled with stone and brick, sits on terraced lawns cut into deodar and oak forest some 2,500 m up. Since 2023 it has been open to visitors, and its tulip garden flowers in April with snow peaks on the skyline on clear days.

The sky wears Khovar, from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.

The motion

Two magpies fly across the whole sky; the deodars sway; the tulips nod; the sun's rays turn. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Orchid #AA5EA5

Valley Blue #4F87C7

Blush #F6ADCD

Mashobra takes Blush #F6ADCD, one of the three Valleys colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Mashobra

A second scene: another true moment at Mashobra, drawn in the graphic vocabulary with the animals and city symbols that belong there. Wide for screens, tall for a phone held upright.

The story

A golden October afternoon at Craignano, above Mashobra: under the great deodars a traveller sits on a felled log with a steaming cup, a striped rug and a picnic basket on the grass before him; a grey langur sits at the forest's edge, black kites wheel over the ridge and the far snow range stands clear above the wooded ridges.

Why this moment

Craignano, 3 km from Mashobra, is the deodar wood round the old Peliti villa, now a nature park and the picnic spot our Mashobra guide and map both send travellers to ('Plan a picnic here'). The Shimla hills' forests are deodar, oak and pine, grey langurs live in them, and black kites ride the ridges; October brings the clear post-monsoon skies when the far snow ranges stand out.

The sky wears Gond scales, from Madhya Pradesh.

The motion

Two black kites wheel over the ridge; the sun's rays turn; the side deodars and the far trees sway; steam curls from the traveller's cup; the langur breathes. A 16-second loop.

In the picture

Its files

wide: wide second scene, SVG wide second scene, Animated SVG wide second scene, PNG
tall: tall second scene, SVG tall second scene, Animated SVG tall second scene, PNG

Also in the kit's zip, in its own folder.

Mashobra in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Mashobra, drawn in the Brand Manual's city language: a monument in the city grey with its openings cut, the things of the place in flat landscape colours. Each comes in colour and in the city grey. Every place's symbols

Craignano's deodarsOf the place
Craignano (Carignano), 3 km from Mashobra, the picnic spot that was Federico Peliti's villa, in the deodar forest: the Himalayan cedar, Himachal's state tree, with its level branches and upright barrel cones.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Apple blossomOf the place
Mashobra is apple country: the Retreat's slope garden alone keeps 375 apple trees; in spring the orchards around it flower white flushed with pink before the fruit sets.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Mashobra 1

Detailed icons from the library that name Mashobra among their places: one drawing, on the page of every place it belongs to. Those drawn for Mashobra alone come first. Every detailed icon

Tulip

Say hello to Mashobra's Zobus

Zobu in Mashobra's own dress, on the palette. Hover or tap one and it waves. Each comes still and alive — idle, hello and hop — for stickers, stories and the app.

Every destination's Zobus →

Female
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave
Male
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave

The animals of Mashobra

Animals and birds the research behind Mashobra's picture names, drawn in the Brand Manual's animal style, in colour and in the city grey. All the animals of India

Grey langurSemnopithecus entellus
SVG Grey SVG PNG

The kit

Everything Mashobra needs: its profile, its cover, wide and tall, its icon, tile, display picture and lockup, its loop and the symbol becoming it, its second scene, its city symbols and its Zobus — every file ready to download.

44 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols and its Zobus included

Profile

Mashobra’s page as a story, 1080 × 1920: its cover, its tile, its name, its line and its verbs — for stories, status and a phone’s lock screen.

SVGOther formats

Cover, wide

1600 × 900, for screens: a page’s top, a slide, a share card. The still is the loop’s first frame. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Cover, tall

900 × 1600, composed for a phone held upright: stories, reels, a lock screen. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Tile

The icon in one colour on Mashobra’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVG PNG