Perhaps India's most popular icon is the Taj Mahal. If you don't know the story...it was built by Emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his 2nd wife who died giving birth to their 14th child. It is without a doubt an architectural masterpiece. It's hard to fathom how such an enormous structure was built so perfectly back in the 15th century, without computer aided drafting, without proper scaffolding or cranes etc. It is perfectly symmetrical. There are exquisite marble screen windows and hundreds of semiprecious inlayed stones. It took about 22 years and 20,000 people to build. Pictures really don't do it justice. It really is more amazing to stand in its presence.
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