Humayun Tomb Mausoleum
Qutub Minar
 new delhi red fort lal quila
India Gate

Hotel Regent Grand is centrally located and is an ideal place to stay where you can easily reach to some of the famous tourist spots of Delhi. Here is an overview of few incredible monuments in Delhi.

Humayun's Tomb

Humayun Tomb

Humayun's Tomb was built in the year 1565 by his Persian wife Hamida Begum. It is laid out in a geometrically arranged garden crisscrossed by numerous water channels. The tomb carries Persian architecture and is notable for its inlaid tile work, carvings embodying both Indian and Persian decorative elements and its carved stone screens.

Qutub Minar

Qutub Minar

Qutub Minar, a tall minaret constructed in 1192 by Qutab-ud-din Aibak, and later completed by his successor Iltutmish, is a great masterpiece of Indo-Islamic Afghan architecture. It has five storeys each of which has unique designs. The verses from the holy Qur'an are carved on sandstone walls of Qutub Minar. It attracts around 3.9 million visitors every year.

Red Fort

Red Fort

The Red Fort is a 17th century fort complex constructed by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. The use of marble, floral decorations, double domes in the buildings inside the fort epitomizes later phase of Mughal grandeur. Red fort embodies some important structures such as Diwan-i-Aam, Diwan-i-Khas, Nahr-i-Behisht, Moti Masjid and many others that speak of Mughal splendour.

India Gate

India-Gate

At the centre of New Delhi stands the 42 m high India Gate, an "Arc-de-Triomphe" like archway in the middle of a crossroad. Almost similar to its French counterpart, it commemorates the 70,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for the British Army during the World War I. The memorial bears the names of more than 13,516 British and Indian soldiers killed in the Northwestern Frontier in the Afghan war of 1919.

Jantar Mantar

jantar-mantar

Jantar Mantar, with Yantra meaning instruments and Mantra meaning formulae, was built in the year 1724. Situated near Connaught Place, New Delhi Jantar Mantar counts amongst the numerous astronomical observatories erected by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur. The other observatories consist of the ones built in Jaipur, Varanasi, Ujjain and Mathura. It basically comprises of the instruments that were used for keeping track of celestial bodies. Jai Singh, after finding the existing astronomical instruments too small to take correct measurements, built these larger and more accurate instruments.

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