India’s top and most visited tourist destination ‘Taj Mahal’ (about 200 kilometers from Delhi), the monument that symbolizes love has finally got its official website.
The website, http://tajmahal.gov.in, on the Taj Mahal developed by the Uttar Pradesh State Tourism Department and designed by Prosix Softron provides not only the complete information about the world prominent monument, but also photographs, impressions, and video clips shot by the visitors.
The department officials says, the website is perhaps the first of its kind for any monument and has been planned keeping in mind the heavy inflow of tourists expected during the Commonwealth Games, scheduled to be held in Delhi in October 2010. Being one of the most exhaustive websites on the monument, the tourism department hopes that this will help the tourists get correct and detailed information on the monument.
Avanish Awasthi, tourism secretary of Uttar Pradesh said, “The Taj Mahal is one of the most visited monuments from all over the world, both by the domestic and international tourists. We have got this website ready, so that if a tourist is planning to visit the Taj Mahal, he should have complete information about it. We do not want the tourist to go back with a terrible experience.”
The main page of the official website shows different views of the monument, including Taj on a full moon night. The website has been connected to Google and shows the landmark via Google Earth.
The UNESCO describes the Taj Mahal as an immense mausoleum of white marble, built in Agra between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife ‘Mumtaz Mahal’. The Taj Mahal is the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world’s heritage.
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