Agra

A city of great contrasts, Agra was the former capital of the Mogul Empire. Here stands the world’s finest monument to love, The Taj Mahal, built by Emperor Shah Jehan in memory of his beautiful wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died whilst giving birth to her fourteenth child. This extravagant monument, completed in 1648, took 20,000 craftsmen 18 years to build.