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The largest of Old Delhi's monuments in Lal Qila, known in English as the Red Fort. It was commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, as his personal seat of his new capital Shahjahanabad, the seventh city of Delhi. This served as the capital of the Mughal Empire until the British seized control in 1857. Work began in 1638 and was completed ten years later. The palace gets it's named after the red sandstone brick it is constructed from and was modelled on the fort at Agra.
The fort has been designed in typical Mughal style and contains all the trappings you'd expect from a Mughal Palace including: Halls for Public and Private Audiences, domed and arched marble palaces, plush private apartments, a mosque, and elaborately designed gardens. The fort's ramparts are over 2km in circumference and are only interupted twice by the western Lahore Gate and the southern Delhi Gate. Lal Qila is situated by the Yamuna River to the east which supplied the fort's moat, and the "stream of paradise" which ran through every pavillion.
Lahore is referred to as the cultural heart of Pakistan as it hosts most of the arts, cuisine, festivals, music, film-making, gardening and intelligentsia of the country. Lahore has always been a centre for publications, where 80 percent of Pakistan's books are published and remains the foremost centre of literary, educational and cultural activity in Pakistan. It is also an important religious centre as it is home to hundreds of temples, mosques, churches and shrines.
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Closer view of the Badshahi Mosque and Samadhi of Ranjit Singh from the Shish Mahal courtyard. The tomb of Ranjit Singh is a splendid example of Sikh architecture, with gilded fluted domes and cupolas and ornate balustrade round the top. The marble inside was taken from various Moghul monuments in Lahore.
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You don't exactly need to be on a rooftop right now to figure out just how gorgeous this city looks tonight. Exhibit 1: This is just a random road in DHA... and it looks like THIS!
The Lahore Fort, locally referred to as Shahi Qila (Punjabi, Urdu: شاہی قلعہ) is citadel of the city of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is located in the northwestern corner of the Walled City of Lahore in Iqbal Park which is one of the largest urban parks in Pakistan. The trapezoidal composition is spread over 20 hectares.
Night view of Badshahi Mosque
Origins of the fort go as far back as antiquity, however, the existing base structure was built during the reign of Mughal Emperor Akbar between 1556–1605 and was regularly upgraded by subsequent Mughal, Sikh and British rulers. It has two gates one is known as Alamgiri Gate build by Emperor Aurangzeb which opens towards Badshahi Mosque and other older one known as Maseeti (Punjabi language word means of Masjid) or Masjidi Gate which opens towards Masti Gate Area of Walled City and was built by Emperor Akbar. Currently Alamgiri Gate is used as the principal entrance while Masti Gate is permanently closed .The fort manifests the rich traditions of Mughal architecture. Some of the famous sites inside the fort include: Sheesh Mahal, Alamgiri Gate, Naulakha pavilion, and Moti Masjid. In 1981, the fort was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with the Shalimar Gardens.
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Naulakha Pavilion, built by Shah Jahan in 1632, is located on the western side of the Shish Mahal courtyard. It consists of a single rectangular room in marble with a typical convex roof in the style of a Bengal hut. It has three openings in front, one on each side, and a perforated marble screen at the back. It is a superb specimen of extremely minute and delicate pietra dura work in semi-precious stone, with beehive ornamentation on its pillars.