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Red Fort (Lal Qila) : Charminar

The Charminar is a massive square structure standing 56 meters tall in Hyderabad. It has four fluted minarets, one on each corner, that rise to a height of 56 meters. Each minaret has a double balcony and is crowned with a small bulbous cupola decorated with petal-like formations. The Red Fort in Delhi is a grand sandstone citadel within nearly 2.5 km of battlement walls that was once the royal residence. It contains palaces, gardens, and a mosque. The Jantar Mantar observatory in Delhi was built in the 1720s-1730s during the decline of the Mughal Empire and features architectural instruments for measuring time and predicting

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Red Fort (Lal Qila) : Charminar

The Charminar is a massive square structure standing 56 meters tall in Hyderabad. It has four fluted minarets, one on each corner, that rise to a height of 56 meters. Each minaret has a double balcony and is crowned with a small bulbous cupola decorated with petal-like formations. The Red Fort in Delhi is a grand sandstone citadel within nearly 2.5 km of battlement walls that was once the royal residence. It contains palaces, gardens, and a mosque. The Jantar Mantar observatory in Delhi was built in the 1720s-1730s during the decline of the Mughal Empire and features architectural instruments for measuring time and predicting

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CHARMINAR

The Charminar is an imposing monument, which reflects the


glory of the Qutub Shahi dynasty. It is a massive square structure, 56 m (183.72 ft) high
and 30 m (98.42 ft) wide. This monument is built entirely of granite and lime mortar. It has
4 minarets one on each of its corners. These fluted minarets are attached to the main
building and rise towards the sky to a height of 56 m (183.72 ft). Each minaret of the
Charminar has a double balcony. A small bulbous cupola crowns each of these beautiful
minarets, which is decorated with petal like formations. A short pointed spire crowns all the
minarets.

RED FORT (LAL QILA)


The Red Fort or the Lal Quila, situated on the western bank of the river Yamuna  forms the
majestic centerpiece of Mughal Emperor Shahajahan's medieval walled city 'Shah
Jahanabad' (Old Delhi). This sandstone citadel encompasses grand audience halls, marble
palaces ornamented with exquisite pietra dura once embedded with precious stones, a
market place where the royalty used to shop, a mosque, gardens with marbled fountains,
plazas, baths etc. The Red Fort is enclosed by nearly 2 1/2 km of battlement walls which
vary in height from 18.5 m (60ft) at its highest watch towers on the river side to 33m on
the city side and is surrounded by a 9m deep moat. It was here, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru,
the first Prime Minister of India, unfurled the Indian flag on 15 August 1947 commemorating
the end of the British colonial rule. Every year on Independence day, the Prime minister
addresses a huge crowd assembled in the Maidan (ground) overlooking the fort, from its
Lahore gate. 

JANTAR MANTAR

The Jantar Mantar of Delhi is only

one of the five observatories built by Sawai Jai Singh II, the other four being located at
Jaipur, Varanasi, Ujjain and Mathura. All of these were built as far back as AD 1724–1730
during the period generally known as the dark age of Indian history, when the last great
Mughal emperor Aurangzeb had died and the Mughal Empire was declining rapidly.

Akbar palace

Ambar palace is situated in Amber, the former capital of the Kachhwaha Rajputs on  a
hillside overlooking Maotha lake, 11 km from Jaipur on the Delhi - Jaipur road. Its
construction was started by Raja Man Singh I, army commander of Mughal Emperor Akbar
in 1592 and was completed by Mirza Raja Jai Singh and Sawai Jai Singh, over a period of
about two centuries. It is a classic fusion of Mughal and Hindu architecture, built in red
sandstone and white marble.
QUTAB MINAR

Qutab Minar, the 239ft sandstone tower is an Indo-Islamic architectural wonder of ancient
India. This magnificent tower of victory stands in the Qutab Complex located at Aurabindo
Marg, near Mehrauli, 14 Km south of Connaught place in Delhi. The complex has a number
of other important monuments- the gateway built in 1310, the Alai Darwaza, Quwwat-ul-
Islam Mosque; one of the oldest existing mosques in India, the tombs of Altamish, Alauddin
Khalji and Imam Zamin; the 2000 year old 7m high Iron Pillar- the Alai Minar; another
tower 27m high, the Madrasa or School, great screen of Qutbuddin Aibak in the mosque etc.

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