Taj Mahal

Located in India, is one of the most important human heritage and designate as one of the new seven wonders . It was built from 1631 till 1654 in Agra by emperor Shah Jahan, from the Mongol Dynasty. This stunning temple was a love prove to their wife, Arjuman Bano Begum, but everyone knows her as Mumtaz Mahal.

In fact, the name of this temple means ‘’the crown of Mahal’’ so it was build just to demonstrate the love for his wife. Is considerate the most beautiful building of the Mongol architecture, but in this case , Taj Mahal mixed Persian , Islamic and Indian architecture but is not just one building is an integrated set of buildings but the dome, the most significant was built with marble but there were used more material like jade, turquoise, chrysotile, agates, amethysts, malachite, sapphires, amber, quartz and coral.

20000 labourers were working on this temple, and the emperor take the most brilliant architects to design the temple but when them finish their job, the emperor ordered maul their hands, the reason is because the emperor didn’t want that this architects could repeat another building that Taj Mahal.

The temple is perfectly symmetrical and the tomb of Mahal is located in the centre of the building. This symmetry is just broken by the tomb of the emperor next of his wife.

Is the most important touristic attraction in India, for this reason exist a lot of companies who offers tours inside Taj Mahal around 110 rupees.