Climbing to number 10, it's India and the Taj Mahal ; CITY BREAK ++ It's one of the world's most famous buildings, yet it has only just made the shortlist of the 21st century's wonders of the world, says Adrian Mourby

From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: June 17, 2007| Author: Adrian Mourby | Copyright information

There were headlines about it in The Times of India. Too much had been taken for granted. Rais, our guide, was crestfallen. "I ask you, sir, can you believe that not enough people have voted? Can you imagine it, madam, that the Taj Mahal might not be one of the new Seven Wonders of the World?"

We made sympathetic noises as our taxi wove in and out of auto- rickshaws, cyclists, jay-walkers and sacred cows out for a midday mooch. Rais took us past the 16th-century fort first, lest we th...

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