City Overview

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April 2018

City Overview

Welcome to the amazing tourism city of the Taj Mahal - Agra, India. The seat of the great Mughal rulers for ages Agra, India offers its treasure trove for all the tourists from India and abroad. Even though Agra, India is synonymous with the Taj, the city stands in testimony to the great amount of architectural activity of the Mughals. TajMahal is the epitome of love, poem in white marble, one of the Seven Wonders of the World besides being the pride of India. In fact all the monuments of Agra, India have contributed to Agra Tourism. Terrific Agra Packages from us will ensure you plan your Agra Travel soon. Delhi to Agra to Jaipur make the famous Golden Triangle tour of India.

Your Trip:

Your travel just pulled into the romantic city of Agra. Check out some of the things you saw while you were riding the train into the city.

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The first thing you want to do once you get to this amazing city is go check out the Taj Mahal! Make sure to spend plenty of time at this incredible building. Taj Mahal, "the epitome of love", is "a monument of immeasurable beauty".

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Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal of Agra is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, for reasons more than just looking magnificent. It's the history of Taj Mahal that adds a soul to its magnificence: a soul that is filled with love, loss, remorse, and love again. Because if it was not for love, the world would have been robbed of a fine example upon which people base their relationships. An example of how deeply a man loved his wife, that even after she remained but a memory, he made sure that this memory would never fade away. This man was the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who was head-over-heels in love with Mumtaz Mahal, his dear wife. She was a Muslim Persian princess (her name Arjumand Banu Begum before marriage) and he was the son of the Mughal Emperor Jehangir and grandson of Akbar the Great. It was at the age of 14 that he met Mumtaz and fell in love with her. Five years later in the year 1612, they got married. It was in the memory of his beloved wife that Shah Jahan built a magnificent monument as a tribute to her, which we today know as the "Taj Mahal".

You loved visiting the Taj Mahal, you didn’t want to just stop there so later that afternoon you went to visit another historical monument in India, the Agra Fort.

While the Taj Mahal remains Agra’s most prized possession, there are other monuments here that are absolutely magnificent and worth a visit. One such monument is the Agra fort, one of India’s most historic structures from the Mughal era. A UNESCO world heritage site, the Agra fort was the seat of the Mughal empire before it was shifted for a short time to Fatehpur Sikri and later to Delhi. Captured by the Mughals in 1526, a vast treasure including the Koh-i-Noor diamond was seized. It took 4000 workers and eight years to build the fort and it was completed in 1573.

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Please record your experiences in your travel journal.

To read more about what you saw here, click on the following links:

http://www.tourism-of-india.com/agra/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/malerie-yolencohen/the-best-of-delhi-and-agr_b_141131 08.html

To read more about the country of India and it’s unique culture and history, click on this

link: http://online.culturegrams.com/kids/kids_country.php?cid=58&cn=India&ctid=3