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10 places to explore — hand-picked across Delhi.
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India Gate is a 42-metre war memorial arch on the ceremonial Kartavya Path, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and completed in 1931. It honours around 74,000 Indian soldiers who died in the First World…
The Jama Masjid of Delhi, built by Shah Jahan in 1656, is one of the largest mosques in India. Its vast red-sandstone-and-marble courtyard holds tens of thousands of worshippers, and its southern m…
The Lotus Temple is a Baha'i House of Worship and one of Delhi's most photographed modern landmarks, shaped like a half-open lotus with 27 marble-clad petals set among nine pools and landscaped gar…
The Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah is the shrine of the great Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya, one of Delhi's most atmospheric spiritual sites. Famous for its Thursday-evening qawwali sessions in a centurie…
Purana Qila — the Old Fort — is the citadel begun by Humayun as Dinpanah and completed by Sher Shah Suri, standing on a mound long identified in tradition with Indraprastha of the Mahabharata. With…
The Red Fort (Lal Qila) is a massive red-sandstone Mughal fortress-palace in Old Delhi, built as the residence of the Mughal emperors and the seat of the Mughal capital after it shifted from Agra. …
Safdarjung's Tomb is a garden-tomb built around 1754 for Safdarjung, the powerful Nawab of Awadh and a prime minister of the Mughal empire. Set in a formal charbagh garden, its red-and-buff sandsto…
Tughlaqabad is the colossal abandoned third city of Delhi, built by Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq in the 1320s and deserted within years — blamed by legend on the curse of the Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya: '…
Humayun's Tomb in Delhi was the first grand Mughal garden-tomb in India, built in the 1560s for Emperor Humayun by his widow Empress Bega Begum. Set within a formal Persian charbagh garden divided …
Qutb Minar is the centrepiece of a UNESCO World Heritage complex in south Delhi, and at 73 metres it remains the tallest brick minaret in the world. Begun by Qutb-ud-din Aibak in 1193 to mark the s…
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