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Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal
and once the capital of the Mughal empire, has several
monuments which display the splendour of Mughal architecture.
It was here that Babar, the founder of the dynasty,
had the first formal Persian garden laid out on the
banks of the river Yamuna. Akbar, his grandson, raised
the towering ramparts of the great Red Fort, within
whose walls Jahangir built rose-red palaces, courts
and gardens, and which Shahajahan embellished with marble
mosques, palaces and pavilions of gem-inlaid white marble.
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