More to city than Taj Mahal

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: June 18, 2006 | Copyright information

NEW DELHI -- Agra, home to the world's most famous monument to love, is to be given a facelift to attract tourists to the ancient Indian city's other two World Heritage sites, the Tourism Ministry said.

Most visitors come to Agra, just 130 miles from the capital New Delhi, to visit the Taj Mahal, without even knowing of the 17th century Red Fort and nearby Fatehpur Sikri, a ghost town that was the capital of the Mogul empire in the 1500s.

"Agra is the only city in the world t...

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