It takes 45 minutes to 1 hour to reach the Red Fort from Chanakyapuri and of course it depends also on the traffic. But this part of Delhi is always busy for example on the opposite of the Red Fort, there are so many small shops selling all type of things and it makes us wondering that which part of India that doesn't have a shop or people around??
HISTORY
The Red Fort was the place for Shah Jahan's new capital, SHAHJAHANABAD, the seventh muslim city in the Delhi site. He moved his capital from Agra in a more designed to bring prestige to his reign, and to provide ample opportunity to apply edge of Shahjahanabad, and gets its name from massive wall of the red sandstone that defines its eight sides. The wall is 2.5km long and varies in height from 16m on the river side to 33m towards the city. Measurements have shown that the plan was generated using a square grid of 82m.
The fort lies along what was once the course of the Jamuna river (it has since changed its course), that fed the moats that surround most of the wall. The wall of its northeastern corner as adjacent to an order fort, the Salimgarh, a defense built by Islam Shah Sur in 1546.
The Red Fort was conceived as a whole subsequent modifications have not taken away from the overall unity of the scheme. In 18th century, however occupiers and looters damaged some sections of the palace. After the Sepoy mutiny of 1857, when the fort was used as a headquarters, the British army occupied and destroyed many of its pavilions and gardens. A program for restoring the surviving parts of the fort began in 1903.
Big kiss from Ndh
Gros becs de Ndh
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