{"id":1808,"date":"2019-12-12T05:43:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T05:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2019-12-12T05:43:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T05:43:45","slug":"akbars-tomb-agra-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/12\/akbars-tomb-agra-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Akbar’s Tomb – Agra, India"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Akbar’s tomb\u00a0is the tomb of the\u00a0Mughal\u00a0emperor\u00a0Akbar,\u00a0\u00a0It was built in 1605\u20131613 by his son\u00a0Jahangir.<\/p>\n

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The tomb building is a four-tiered pyramid, surmounted by a marble pavilion containing the false tomb. The true tomb, as in other mausoleums, is in the basement. Around the\u00a0cenotaph\u00a0 there is a galleria with very few decorations when compared to the rest of the structure.<\/p>\n

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The buildings are constructed mainly from a deep red\u00a0sandstone, decorated inlaid panels of these materials and a black\u00a0slate\u00a0adorn the tomb and the main gatehouse. Panel designs are geometric, floral and calligraphic, and prefigure the more complex and subtle designs .<\/p>\n

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For me the most beautiful part of the entire complex was the\u00a0ceiling details. There are simply stunning, it was quite amazing seeing people work on its conservation.<\/p>\n

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The south gate is the largest and the point of entry to the tomb, with four white\u00a0marble\u00a0chhatri-topped minarets which are similar to those of the\u00a0Taj Mahal.<\/p>\n

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There are 3 blind gates, been the West side the best kept.\u00a0 It has a\u00a0vaulted ceiling with arch-netting fully decorated.<\/p>\n

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Below is a structure close to the tomb that was built as a harem quarter and later used as a hunting lodge.<\/p>\n

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Akbar’s tomb\u00a0is the tomb of the\u00a0Mughal\u00a0emperor\u00a0Akbar,\u00a0\u00a0It was built in 1605\u20131613 by his son\u00a0Jahangir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}