Agra | Uttar Pradesh | India
Temperature: Max. 45° C, Min. 7° C
Ideal Duration: 1-2 hours
Open Time: Throughout the year
Nearest Airport: Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Airport Agra
Nearest Railway Station: Agra Cantt, Agra Fort, Agra City
Nicknamed the Baby Taj, the exquisite tomb of Mizra Ghiyas Beg should not be missed. This Persian nobleman was Mumtaz Mahal grandfather and Emperor Jehangir wazir (chief minister). His daughter, Nur Jahan, who married Jehangir, built the tomb between 1622 and 1628, in a style similar to the tomb she built for Jehangir near Lahore in Pakistan.It doesn't have the same awesome beauty as the Taj, but it arguably more delicate in appearance thanks to its particularly finely carved marble jalis (lattice screens). This was the first Mughal structure built completely from marble, the first to make extensive use of pietra dura and the first tomb to be built on the banks of the Yamuna, which until then had been a sequence of beautiful pleasure gardens.
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