Delhi One Day Tour Package - Best Way to Explore Modern and Ancient Delhi

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Delhi One Day Tour Package Best Way to Explore Modern and Ancient Delhi A thousand years of history lie in Delhi, the capital of India and its third largest city. Located in the north where the country is narrowing between Pakistan in the west and China and Tibet in the east, Delhi was the capital of Muslim India from the twelfth to the 19th century. Historically, it has been the center of vital trade routes and strategically located at the gates of the fertile Ganga plain - the social, religious and cultural social line of India.


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There are now 2 cities of Delhi, New and Old. There were at least 8 cities listed on and around the site, the oldest being Indraprastha, existing since the 3rd or 4th century BC. There are many legends about the founding of the city and some archeological dates as to its age. The Tomar Rajputs founded and fortified the walls of Dhillika, the first of the medieval cities, in the 9th century AD and were overthrown in the 12th century by the Jaipur Cauhans who built a second defensive wall.Â

The Turkish invaders in

1193 put an end to Hindu domination and began

the new Islamic era of the city.


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The following cities have been added next to the oldest ones. Shah Jahan, the famous creator of the Taj Mahal, was in charge of the 7th Delhi, which he called Shahjahanabad. It was the Mughal capital until 1857. As the Mughal power wanted to be replaced by that of the British East India Company, Delhi lost its prestige and became another provincial city. In

1911, the British chose Delhi as their capital, transferring the vice -

royal headquarters of Calcutta. Plans were soon underway to build New Delhi south of Shahjahanabad and Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, 2 British architects, were brought to design it.


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The center of the plan consisted of Rashtrapati Bhavan or Viceregal Lodge (now the presidential residence), Parliament, Secretariats, Memorial Arch and Connaught Circus.

The city was designed in a mix of European Renaissance and Oriental styles to offer a graceful garden setting to colonial rulers, but after independence in 1947, the city began a horizontal and vertical growth and now integrates all the old cities. Develop as the population grows. Thanks to its long history, its many rulers and religions, Delhi is a paradoxical city and Delhi one day tour package is best way to


Continue‌ explore the most beautiful destination and dream city of India. It has many of the oldest and most revered buildings and monuments in India, illustrating all the stages of its development, and is also a modern metropolis of nearly 6 million people.


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