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Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Cecilia Bembibre, in Dec. 2009
The Taj Mahal is one of the most beautiful, delicate and amazing constructions in the whole world. Easily recognizable by its shape and beautifully maintained gardens, the Taj Mahal is located in India, in the town eastern Agra, near the border with Nepal. Although it may appear from its external form and its wealth to be a residential or residential-type building. government, the Taj Mahal is a mausoleum Built in honor of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's wife in the mid-17th century.
This complex building is one of the richest and most luxurious buildings in the eastern world since, to honor his late wife, the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan sought to decorate the walls, walls, floors and columns of this building with the most beautiful and ostentatious mosaics, sculptures and decorations. However, the Taj Mahal is not only the central building, but the complex has buildings and temples secondary as well as beautiful gardens specially planned to ensure the tranquility of the place.
The shape of the Taj Mahal is the typical shape of many eastern buildings, with their holly domes, the presence of the flower lotus in numerous spaces and surfaces, the huge doors also with designs on their tips, capitals, columns and beautiful galleries through which to circulate. Many specialists maintain that for their building both Arab, Persian and Hindu styles were taken into account, thus turning this building into a unique work of art, unrepeatable in the world.
Without a doubt, the possibility of knowing and touring the different buildings that are part of this complex is a chance only. In this sense, its entire interior surface is decorated with beautiful arabesques, mosaics and sculptures of the highest refinement. Despite its impressive beauty and being considered one of the most important monuments of the human being (officially recognized by UNESCO as a Site Heritage of the Humanity in 1983), due to various situations and military attacks, the building has been damaged in some sections of its structure.
Themes in Taj Mahal