Places of Interest in Delhi

India Gate
Rajpath Located in the street, on the magnificent Rashtrapati Bhawan, the door is at 160 meters high with an arc of 138 metres. Built as a memorial to 70000 soldiers killed in India, World War I, India Gate was Sir Edwin Lutyens, and during the year 1931.

Red Fort
Red Fort, one of the most sumptuous palaces in the world. History of India is also closely linked to the fortress. It was here frorth ht British removal of the last Moghul-leader, Bhadur Shah Zafar, the end of the three long centuries of domination Moghul. It was also fromits ramparts that the first premium. Minister of India, Pandit Jawharlal Nehru, announced to the nation, that India was free form of colonial domination.

Qutub Minar
Qutab-ud-din Aibak, the first Muslim leader of Delhi, has started construction of the Qutab Minar in 1200 AD, but the end of the cave. His successor, Iltutmush, has added three other floors, and in 1368, Firoz Shah Tughlak built the fifth and top floor. The evolution of architectural styles of Aibak to Tughlak are obviously in the Minar. The liberation of work and even the materials used for construction.

Purana Quila
On a circuit of about one mile, the walls of the fortress, three doors and is surrounded by a carpet fed by the river Yamuna. The wall was Humayun, while the fortress buildings are due to Sher Shar. The remarkable buildings, which have survived in the fortress are the Sher Mandal and Quila-I-kholina mosque. Sher Mandal is a dual situation of the octagonal tower was Humayun that its library. The mosque, built in 1541-42, is an important milestone in Indo Islamic architecture.

Jantar Mantar
Under the aegis of the emperor, he founded itself the task of correcting existing astronomical tables and updating the almanac with more reliable instruments. Jantar Mantar Delhi is the first of five observatories, he built with large masonary instruments. At first glance, Jantar Mantar, which appears as a gallery of modern art. But this is an observatory. Jia Sawai Singh II of Jaipur (1699-1743), an astronomer and a noble in the Moghul court, was dissatisfied by the errors of brass and metal astronomical instruments.

Humayun’s Tomb
The first mature example of Moghul architecture of India, Humayun’s Tomb by the Kaiser’s widow in mourning, Haji Begum, 1565 AD.The mughals brought with them the love of gardens, fountains and water. Built in red sandstone and decorated marks the beginning of a tradition of art nouveau style culminated in the Taj Mahal in Agra.

Jama Masjid
The work of the Jama Masjid Mosque-1650 was launched by the Moghul emperor Shah Jahan, in addition to his palace on the Red Fort, over 5000 workers geschuftet for a period of six years for the largest mosque in India . Every Friday, the emperor and his retinue travel in the State of the fortress on the mosque prayers in Congress.

Rajghat
A simple platform listed on the Mahatma’s last words “Hey Ram” (Oh God) is in a garden with a fountain and a variety of exotic trees. The remains of Mahatma Gandhi was cremated on this point, on the western shore of the river Yamuna, on the evening of 31 January 1948.

Lakshmi Narayan Mandir
Construction year 1938, the temple is an ideal introduction to some of the gods of India Pantheon. The temple contains a large number of idols and visitors can also see priests representing the ritual prayer. This temple was created by DG Birla in 1938. This beautiful temple is located west of Connaught Place. The temple is dedicated to the goddess of prosperity and happiness. The temple also has an alloy gardens. It is also known as Birla Mandir.

Delhi Tourism

New Delhi history goes much farther back in time as the 13 century. In 1955, excavations at Purana Qila, that the site was inhabited 3000 years. Produced known as the Painted Pottery Grayware and dated 1000 BC, that another site in connection with the epic Mahabharata. The excavations also cut through houses and roads in the Sultanate, Rajput, Post-Gupta, Gupta and Kushan Saka-Sunga time and reached on the Mauryan period (300 BC) and the quasi-continuous habitaion . The Association of Emperor Ashoka (273-36 BC) from Delhi to light with the discovery of a minor Rock edict instead known as Srinivaspuri.

A clearer picture of the city resulting from the late 10th century, that the Rajputs Tomar located in the Aravalli hills, south of Delhi. The isolated, the rock in advance to facilitate the defence of the Royal Resort where Rajputs called Dhilli or Dhillika. The core of the first of seven cities was created by Anangpal Tomar, I constructed Lal Kot, which is the first known defence normal working in Delhi. The Chauhan Rajputs later taken prisoner by the Tomars Delhi. Prithviraj III, also known as Rai Pithora advanced Lal Kot and added massive walls and doors and Qila Rai Pithora the first city of Delhi.

Today, these are only the walls are visible near the Qutub Minar, although the city is known for having several Hindu and Jain temple. Prithviraj judgement was Delhi, where Muhammad Ghur conquest of India, and died in battle against the invaders in the second battle of Tarain in 1192 Ghur back, but left his viceroy, his slave Qutbuddin Aibak. In 1199, Qutbuddin raised the Qutub Minar, whether by a victory as a tower or the minaret of the mosque adjacent. With an area of 14.32 m. he pointed to 2.75 m at a height of 72.5 meters. It is still the highest stone tower in India, one of the most beautiful tower to any question of Islamic structures and Delhi’s emblem recognized. It was created by the sultan successor and son-in-low, Iltutmish. The tomb of Iltutmish, which itself was built in 1235, is nearby. Its interiors are richly decorated with calligraphy, thought the dome collapsed.

Displaced persons Khalji sovereign of the slave dynasty in 1290, and if Alauddin khali renovation of the mosque commissioned by 1311, he threw an impressive Alai Darwaza, south of the entrance to the mosque. It is the first example of a building occupied the entire construction of Islamic principles and the actual arch. In 1303, Alauddin, was the second city of Delhi, called Siri, get nothing remained but the embattlements. He also dug a large reservoir, Hauz Khas, sypply water in his city.

The weather historians describe the time Delhi as “the envy of Baghdad, the rival of Cairo and Constantinople the same.” (For reasons of convenience, tourists visit the complex of Qutb is also possible that the tomb of AdhamKhan and Zafar Mahal in Mehrauli, and the tomb of the Jamai-Kamali behind the Qutub Minar. They are however a later date.) have been replaced by Khalhjis Tughlaq dynasty during the year 1321 eleven of its leaders, only The first three were interested in architecture, and each of them was a new city