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Palace on Wheels are the romantic. Four towers talking to the
main ones which can you to sky on the four corners of the

Agra from Delhi. platform are raised in pride, in this
• By Air –The city of Taj, way, the head is lifted up as if there
Agra has its own airport, are four guardians of the Taj Mahal so

which can be accessed by that no one will spoil the beauty of
any airlines from all over the the Taj.
nation.

Our guide gave us some more basic
More on Taj Mahal –
information. The tomb was the
central focus of the entire complex of
This was about the history of the Taj.
the Taj Mahal. It was a large, white
Now coming back to visit of Taj
marble structure settled on a
Mahal, at entrance, there was a huge
square plinth and consists of a
stone door which has the rectangles
symmetrical building with an iwan or
of Koran Sharif written with white
an arch-shaped doorway, topped by a
stone. According to Supreme Court
large dome and finial. The structure
order, tourists will have to go through
of the base was a large multi-
the X-ray equipment and metal
chambered cube which formed an
detectors before entering the Taj
unequal eight-sided structure that was
Mahal. Work has been started on
approximately 55 metres (180 ft) on
behalf of the government too.
each of the four long sides.

Next to the main entrance to the Taj,
The corners of the base structure
between the beaches of the charming
were skillfully chamfered. Each side
and grand gardens, was a road
of the iwan was framed with a
equipped with peacock trees. The
huge pishtaq or vaulted archway with
cold breeze blowing through the Taj
two similarly shaped arched balconies
was reminding us every time about
stacked on either side. This motif of
the romantic stories related to the
stacked pishtaqs was replicated on the
historical monument. In the middle,
chamfered corner areas, making the
there was a beautiful lake in which the
design completely symmetrical on all
colorful fishes float. To enter inside,
sides of the building.
one has to climb on a large marble

stacked floor. Its texture is also very

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