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Agra Fort is a massive red-sandstone fortress-palace complex on the banks of the Yamuna River, enclosed by 2.5 km of walls, and served as the principal…
Allahabad Fort (Akbar Fort) is a large Mughal fort on the banks of the Yamuna near its confluence with the Ganges in Prayagraj, built to enclose the sacred…
Ayodhya is an ancient city on the banks of the sacred Saryu, revered as the birthplace of Lord Rama and one of the seven primary holy cities of Hinduism.
Bhuragarh Fort is a stone fortress on the banks of the Ken river in Banda district, Uttar Pradesh, associated with the Bundela dynasty and with the district's…
Chunar Fort stands on a rocky outcrop of the Vindhya Range overlooking a bend in the Ganges, roughly 280 feet above the river, and has passed through the…
Fatehpur Sikri is a planned Mughal city and fort complex near Agra, built entirely of red sandstone, that served briefly as Emperor Akbar's imperial capital.
The name means garden of roses, and there are roses here in quantity, planted along the water channels and fountains of a charbagh.
Jhansi Fort is a hilltop fortress in the Bundelkhand region, historically the seat of the Jhansi state and most famous as the stronghold defended by Rani…
Kalinjar is one of the legendary strongholds of central India, crowning a flat spur of the Vindhyas above the Bundelkhand plain.
Kushinagar is the sacred site where the Buddha attained Mahaparinirvana (final liberation) and was cremated.
Mathura, the birthplace of Lord Krishna, and neighbouring Vrindavan, where he spent his childhood, form the heart of the Braj pilgrimage region — a land of…
Akbar's five-level pavilion at Fatehpur Sikri is all columns and no walls: 176 of them, each carved differently, thinning from 84 on the ground floor to four…
Sarnath, near Varanasi, is where the Buddha delivered his first sermon after enlightenment, setting in motion the wheel of dharma.
Two seasons of digging, in 2005-06 and again in 2018, turned this patch of the Ganga-Yamuna Doab into an argument.
The Taj Mahal stands in white marble on the southern bank of the Yamuna River at Agra.
Nur Jahan built this in Agra for her father, Mirza Ghiyas Beg, a Persian amir in exile who was given the title I'timad-ud-Daulah, pillar of the state.
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