The Taj Mahal, located near the Indian city of Agra, is one of the world’s greatest architectural treasures. The almost supernatural beauty of the Taj Mahal and its grounds transcends culture and history, and speaks with a voice of its own to visitors from all over the world of feelings that are common to [...]
Read More...The Taj Mahal is still in the running to find a place in the seven new wonders of the world. New data released by the organisers of the competition shows India’s Taj Mahal at the tenth place with the Acropolis in Athens and Mexico’s Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza as frontrunners. The winners of [...]
Read More...Agra, once the capital of the Mughal Empire during the 16th and early 18th centuries, is one and a half hours by express train from New Delhi. Tourists from all over the world visit Agra not to see the ruins of the red sandstone fortress built by the Mughal emperors but to make a [...]
Read More... Indian tourism chiefs have run out of gate passes to the Taj Mahal – and had to replace them with tickets intended for another monument, Fatehpur Sikri.
Fatehpur Sikri lies around 35 kilometres from Agra, where the Taj Mahal is situated, and is a famous destination in its own right – being the deserted capital [...]
The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India. The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned it as a mausoleum for his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Construction began in 1632 and was completed in approximately 1648. Some dispute surrounds the question of who designed the Taj Mahal; it is clear a team of [...]
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