Itemad tomb-ud-Daula
Tomb and mausoleum otherwise Itemad-ud-Daula, stands in the center of the Persian fleet magnificent Agra. She is known as "jewelery box", and is considered a kind of "dress rehearsal" before the construction of the famous Taj Mahal and is sometimes called "Little Taj" or "Baby Taj".
Lakshmi Narayana temple
Lakshmi Narayan Temple is located in Delhi and is dedicated to Krishna (Narayana) and his wife Lakshmi. The building of the temple is built of white-pink marble and consists of several concentric squares. The main altar is in the inner square, and the rest - along the walls, and devoted to many other deities.
Adjacent to the temple is beautiful and well maintained park, where there are fountains, artificial caves for meditation, monastery for yogis, as well as a hotel for pilgrims, a library with a reading room and other buildings.
Palace Lake Pichola
This palace was built in the lake in the XVIII century as a royal summer residence. Today it is a luxury 5-star hotel. Tourists are taken here by boat from the jetty on the eastern shore of Lake Pichola. The palace became particularly famous in 1983 when it hosted the shooting of one of the James Bond films.
Qutub Minar
Qutub Minar is the tallest minaret in the world , created from bricks. Minaret is located in the Indian capital New Delhi. Its height is just over 72 meters, and rises to the top of 379 steps.
This complex of monuments from different eras. If you look at the tower from the bottom up , you can see how there was a change of style of Indo- Islamic architecture of the time.
To create red sandstone minaret was used , and on the third tier - white marble . Prior to the beginning of the XIX century at the top of the tower was a dome, but it was collapsed in the quake.
Base diameter is about 14 meters, but with each tier tower narrows , and the diameter of the fifth floor of less than 3 meters . All the walls are inscribed with Arabic script , there are even verses from the Koran. The main entrance is on the north side , and the inputs on the upper floors facing east.
Red Fort
Red Fort - a structure that resembles a fortress. It was built in Agra during the reign of the Great Mongol and served as their residence. Fort built of red brick , hence its name.
Red Fort , which is located near the Taj Mahal and the Yamuna river , has a unique shape . It is a crescent. Furthermore, this structure is also enclosed with additional wall that served as protection against belligerent neighbors. Protective wall height is approximately 21 meters . Perimeter construction of 2.4 km . Additional wall fits into the overall exterior of the building and made of the same material - red stone .
Golden Temple Harmandir Sahib
Temple is considered one of the most respected and oldest in India. Mecca is a sacred Sikh. Construction of the temple began in the XVI century by Guru, in the XIX century and the upper floors of the temple were covered with gold.
Conclusion
Having met my research, I learnt that India situated in South Asia, it has got a big population, it is an industrial, it is a republic, its languages are Hindi and English, the nationalities are Hindustanis, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Gujaratis, Kannada. This country has a lot of interesting places. I want to visit it one day.
Literature
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F
http://travel.tochka.net/7779-dostoprimechatelnosti-indii-10-samykh-interesnykh/