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Amer Acropolis is a acropolis amid in Amer, Rajasthan, India. Amer is a boondocks with an breadth of 4 aboveboard kilometres (1.5 sq mi) amid 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from Jaipur, the basic of Rajasthan. Amid aerial on a hill, it is the arch day-tripper allure in Jaipur.[2][3] The boondocks of Amer was originally congenital by Meenas,[4] and after it was disqualified by Raja Man Singh I (December 21, 1550 – July 6, 1614). Amer Acropolis is accepted for its aesthetic Hindu appearance elements. With its ample ramparts and alternation of gates and cobbled paths, the acropolis overlooks Maota Lake, which is the capital antecedent of baptize for the Amer Palace. Constructed of red sandstone and marble, the attractive, abundant alcazar is laid out on four levels, anniversary with a courtyard. It consists of the Diwan-i-Aam, or "Hall of Public Audience", the Diwan-i-Khas, or "Hall of Private Audience", the Sheesh Mahal (mirror palace), or Jai Mandir, and the Sukh Niw...

Hawa Mahal  (English translation: "Palace of Winds" or "Palace of the Breeze") is a palace in  Jaipur , India. It is constructed of red and pink  sandstone . The palace sits on the edge of the  City Palace, Jaipur , and extends to the  zenana , or women's chambers. The structure was built in 1799 by Maharaja  Sawai Pratap Singh . He was so inspired by the unique structure of  Khetri Mahal  that he built this grand and historical palace. It was designed by  Lal Chand Ustad . Its unique five-storey exterior is akin to the honeycomb of a beehive with its 953 small windows called  jharokhas  decorated with intricate  latticework .The original intent of the lattice design was to allow royal ladies to observe everyday life and festivals celebrated in the street below without being seen, since they had to obey the strict rules of "purdah", which forbade them from appearing in public without face coverings. This architect...

The  Qutub Minar   is a minaret that forms part of the  Qutab complex , a  UNESCO   World Heritage Site  in the  Mehrauli  area of  Delhi ,  India . Qutub Minar is a 73-metre (239.5 feet) tall tapering tower of five storeys, with a 14.3 metre (47 feet) base diameter, reducing to 2.7 metres (9 feet) at the peak. It contains a spiral staircase of 379 steps.  Its design is thought to have been based on the  Minaret of Jam , in western  Afghanistan . Qutab Ud-Din-Aibak , founder of the  Delhi Sultanate , started construction of the Qutub Minar's first storey around 1192. In 1220, Aibak's successor and son-in-law  Iltutmish  completed a further three storeys. In 1369, a lightning strike destroyed the top storey.  Firoz Shah Tughlaq  replaced the damaged storey, and added one more. [5] It derived its name from the  Sufi  saint  Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Quaki  whom  Q...

The  Taj Mahal(  meaning Crown of the Palace [4] ) is an ivory-white marble  mausoleum  on the south bank of the  Yamuna   river in the Indian city of  Agra . It was commissioned in 1632 by the  Mughal emperor ,  Shah Jahan  (reigned from 1628 to 1658), to house the tomb of his favourite wife,  Mumtaz Mahal . The tomb is the centrepiece of a 17-hectare (42-acre) [5]  complex, which includes a  mosque  and a guest house, and is set in formal gardens bounded on three sides by a  crenellated  wall. Construction of the mausoleum was essentially completed in 1643 but work continued on other phases of the project for another 10 years. The Taj Mahal complex is believed to have been completed in its entirety in 1653 at a cost estimated at the time to be around 32 million  rupees , which in 2015 would be approximately 52.8 billion rupees ( U.S. $ 827 million). The construction project em...