Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Agra Tourism

The city of the Taj Mahal and once the capital of the Mughal empire, Agra, has several monuments which display the splendour of Mughal architecture. It was here that Babar, the founder of the dynasty, had the first formal Persian garden laid out on the banks of the river Yamuna. Akbar, his grandson, raised the towering ramparts of the great Red Fort, within whose walls Jahangir built rose-red palaces, courts and gardens, and which Shahajahan embellished with marble mosques, palaces and pavilions of gem-inlaid white marble. the tajmahal is built by Shahajahan in the memory of his lovers queen,mutajmahal,

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