Red Fort, Delhi - Tourist Places

In 1638 Shahjahan exchanged his capital from Agra to Delhi and established the frameworks of Shahjahanabad, the seventh city of Delhi. It is encased by a rubble stone divider, with bastions, doors and wickets at interims. Of its fourteen entryways, the critical ones are the Mori, Lahori, Ajmeri, Turkman, Kashmiri and Delhi doors, some of which have as of now been obliterated. His popular fortification, the Lal-Qila, or the Red Fort, lying at the town's northern end on the right bank or the Yamuna and south of Salimgarh, was started in 1639 and finished following nine years. The Red Fort is unique in relation to the Agra fortress and is better arranged, on the grounds that at its back lies the experience picked up by Shahjahan at Agra, and in light of the fact that it was the work of one hand. It is a sporadic octagon, with two long sides on the east and west, and with two principle doors, one on the west and the other on the south, called Lahori and Delhi entryways individually. While the dividers, entryways and a couple of different structures in the stronghold are built of red sandstone, marble has been to a great extent utilized as a part of the castles.

From the western passage in the wake of going through the vaulted arcade, called Chhatta-Chowk, one achieves the Naubat- or Naqqar-Khana ('Drum-house'), where stately music was played and which additionally served as the passageway to the Diwan-i-'Am. Its upper story is currently possessed by the Indian War Memorial Museum.

The Diwan-i-" Am ('Hall of Public Audience') is a rectangular lobby, three walkway profound, with an exterior of nine curves. At the back of the lobby is a niche, where the illustrious throne remained under a marble shelter, with a trimmed marble dias underneath it for the head administrator. The divider behind the throne is ornamented with delightful boards of pietra dura work, said to have been executed by Austin de Bordeaux, a Florentine craftsman. Orpheus with his lute is spoken to in one of the boards here. Initially there were six marble royal residences along the eastern water front. Behind the Diwan-i-" Am however differentiated by a court is the Rang-Mahal ('Painted Palace'), purported owing to shaded improvement on its inside. It comprises of a fundamental corridor with a curved front, with vaulted chambers on either end. A water-channel, called the Nahr-i-Bihisht ('Stream of Paradise'), ran down through it, with a focal marble bowl fitted with an ivory wellspring. The Mumtaz-Mahal, initially an imperative condo in the royal seraglio, now houses the Delhi Fort Museum.

The Diwan-i-Khass ('Hall of Private Audience') is a very ornamented pillared corridor, with a level roof bolstered on engrailed curves. The lower segment of its wharfs is ornamented with flower pietra dura boards, while the upper bit was initially plated and painted. Its marble dias is said to have upheld the celebrated Peacock Throne, diverted by the Persian trespasser Nadir Shah.

The Tasbih-Khana ('chamber for numbering dots for private petitions to God') comprises of three rooms, behind which is the Khwabgah ('dozing chamber'). On the northern screen of the previous is a representation of the Scales of Justice, which are suspended over a bow in the midst of stars and mists. Bordering the eastern mass of the Khwabgah is the octagonal Muthamman-Burj, from where the head showed up before his subjects each morning. A little gallery, which extends from the Burj, was included here in 1808 by Akbar Shah II, and it was from this overhang that King George V and Queen Mary showed up before the populace of Delhi in December 1911.

The Hammam ('Bath') comprises of three principle lofts separated by halls. The whole inside, including the floor, is constructed of marble and decorated with shaded stones. The showers were given 'hot and chilly water', and it is said that one of the wellsprings in the easternmost flat discharged rose water. Toward the west of the Hammam is the Moti-Masjid ('Pearl Mosque'), included later by Aurangzeb. The Hayat-Bakhsh-Bagh ('Life-giving greenery enclosure'), with its structures, misleads the north of the mosque, and was later extensively adjusted and reproduced. The red-stone structure amidst the tank in the inside of the Hayat-Bakhsh-Bagh is called Zafar-Mahal and was constructed by Bahadur Shah II in around 1842.

In 1644, Shahjahan started in Delhi his incredible mosque, the Jami'- Masjid the biggest mosque in India, and finished it in 1650. Its square quadrangle with angled groups on the sides and a tank in the inside is 100 m. wide. Based on a raised plinth, it has three forcing portals approached by long flights of steps. Its petition to God corridor, with an exterior of eleven curves, flanked by a four-storeyed minaret on either end, is secured by three vast arches ornamented with exchanging stripes of 'high contrast marble.

Extra charge:

Nationals of India and guests of SAARC (Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Maldives and Afghanistan) and BIMSTEC Countries (Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Myanmar) - Rs.10 every head.

Others:

Rs. 250/ - every head (Free passage to youngsters up to 15 years)