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Duration: Customized Tour Package
Places to visit: Agra

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Location: 220 kms From Delhi, 250 kms From Jaipur, 58-km From Mathura, Uttar Pradesh

Founded By: Badal Singh

Established In: 1475

Main Attractions: Taj Mahal, Agra Fort

Set out on sightseeing tours to Agra in Uttar Pradesh, India with India Holiday Packages and be completely enamored with the architectural excellence that welcomes you into a world where you feel pleasantly caught in a time warp. All the sightseeing tour packages to Agra include a must visit to the Taj Mahal that stands in memoriam to the lovely Arjumand Bano Begum or Mumtaz Mahal and in testimony to the everlasting love that the Emperor Shah Jahan felt for her.

Besides the Taj Mahal, sightseeing tours to Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India include tours to the Chini ka Rauza, Agra Fort, Itmad-Ud-Daulah's Tomb, Fatehpur Sikri, Akbar's Tomb at Sikandra and Mariam's Tomb.

Visit the Tomb of Sheikh Salim Chisti and the Jama Masjid on your sightseeing tours to the Fatehpur Sikri located at a distance of 37 kilometers from Agra in Uttar Pradesh, India. "Fateh" literally means the "victory" and the Fatehpur Sikri means the City of Victory that was built by the Mughal Emperor Akbar to honor the Sheikh Salim Chisti with whose blessings he had three sons.

The main gate that leads to the Fatehpur Sikri is known as the Buland Darwaza and is an excellent example of Mughal architectural brilliance. On your sightseeing tours to the Fatehpur Sikri you visit splendid monuments, mosques, palaces, mansions and mausoleums located within the massive sandstone walls that enclose this mini city.

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Tomb of Akbar - Sikandra
Fateh Pur Sikiri, Agra Sikandara, the place where the remains of Akbar the Great are interred, is situated some six miles to the north-west of Agra on the Delhi and Lahore road. It was founded by Sikandar Lodi in 1504 when he shifted his capital from Delhi to the vicinity of Agra in order to be nearer to the eastern provinces of his kingdom. It was at Sikandara that Akbar decided to have his mausoleum and hence it was renamed "Bihishtabad" or the "Heavenly Abode". Akbar wanted his mausoleum to be in the centre of a large garden. Like his administration, it was to be of solid construction and like his empire it was to be of vast proportions. This structure has a perfect blending of Hindu, Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, Jain motifs. The blending is much like the religion, Deen Ilahi, which Akbar started. But Akbar died before his mausoleum could be completed and his son Jehangir completed it.