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RSS FeedsDelhi`s `lost` Mughal garden reopens as public park
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22 february 2018 04:26:04

 
Delhi`s `lost` Mughal garden reopens as public park
(Artdaily.org)
 


A once-forgotten Mughal garden in the heart of New Delhi will reopen on Wednesday after years of painstaking conservation work, creating a new public park in India`s sprawling and smog-choked capital. The 90-acre (36-hectare) garden will be formally opened by the Aga Khan, whose Trust for Culture has helped recreate the classical garden and restore its crumbling 16th-century monuments. Some of the ancient tombs it contains were close to ruin before conservation efforts began around a decade ago, but have now been given UNESCO World Heritage status. The park is part of the historic complex that surrounds Humayan`s Tomb, the recently restored grave of a Mughal emperor that is widely seen as the inspiration for the Taj Mahal. The Mughal dynasty ruled most of northern India from the early 16th to the mid-18th


 
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