"It's a marble tear resting on the cheek of time."TAGORE
Taj Mahal means "Crown Palace", is considered one of the most beautiful and fascinating building.
Since 2007 it's part of the Seven Wonders Of The World and the magnetism is due in part to the legend that surrounds him.
The Taj Mahal is situated on the banks of river Yamuna in Agra, Northern India.
It was built by the fifth Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan in 1631 in memory of his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal who was a native Princess of Persia.
Mumtaz Mahal died during a campaign of rebellion crush, while she accompanied her husband to Behrampur. She has just already given birth to their fourteenth child. Her death was a real tragedy for the emperor, he arrived at the point that his hair and beard in a few months became completely white from the pain.
While Mumtaz Mahal was still alive, she had asked the emperor to accomplish the following four promises in case she'll die before him:
* As the first promise was that him to build the Taj;
* The second was that he should marry again to give a new mother to their children's;
* The third promise was that he would always be good and be understanding with their children;
* and fourth that, he always visited his grave on the anniversary of his death.
The construction of the Taj Mahal began in 1631 and was completed in 22 years. They were probably more than a thousand elephants used to drag the heavy marble and legend has it, that all workers involved in the titanic undertaking were amputated hands at the finish of building construction. Why Shah Jahan wanted that? Wanted not for that work was not perfect, wanted because of that, never to be repeated.
The Taj stands on a base of red sandstone topped by a huge white marble terrace on which rests the famous dome flanked by four tapering minarets. The dome is made of white marble, but the location near the river it gives a magical play of colors that change during the hours of the day and the seasons, giving the Taj Mahal reflected colors that make it unique but always different. Like a jewel, the Taj sparkles in moonlight when the semi-precious stones set into the white marble on the main mausoleum grab the glow of the moonlight. The Taj is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening and golden when the moon shines. It seems that these color changes, reflect the changing mood of women, or so they say in India. To describe it would be enough to say that the Taj Mahal lives, as A Monument To Eternal Love.
On this matter of topic also was making the Bollywood film: Taj Mahal - An Eternal Love Story (2005)
The Taj Mahal viewed in different hours of the day (24 hours)
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| 1. Sunrise |
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| 2. Morning |
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| 3. Day |
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| 4. Sunset |
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| 5. Moonlight |
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| 6. Night |
