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Entdecke Routen, Sehenswürdigkeiten und Reiseführer in Delhi.
9 Routen
Indisches Tor, Rashtrapati Bhavan & Lutyens' Neu-Delhi
Lutyens' Neu-Delhi — die geplante Kolonialhauptstadt, entworfen von Edwin Lutyens und Herbert Baker, 1911-1931 gebaut — zentriert auf der 3 km langen Zeremonialache vom Indischen Tor zum Rashtrapati Bhavan, ist eines der großen Beispiele imperialer Stadtplanung des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Agra-Tagesausflug — Das Taj Mahal, Agra Fort & Fatehpur Sikri
Agra (200 kilometres south of Delhi, 2-3 hours by the Gatimaan Express or Shatabdi Express train) — the former Mughal capital of Akbar the Great and Shah Jahan and the site of the most celebrated building in the world: the Taj Mahal (Taj Bibi ka Maqbara — the white marble mausoleum built by Emperor Shah Jahan 1632-1653 in memory of his favourite wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died in childbirth in 1631) — is the most popular day trip destination from Delhi and the single building that brings more international tourists to India than any other.
Rotes Fort, Chandni Chowk & Altes Delhi — Mughal-Kaiserzentrum
Altes Delhi (Shahjahanabad — die Festungsstadt des Mughal-Kaisers Shah Jahan, 1638-1648) mit dem Roten Fort (UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe) und dem Chandni-Chowk-Basar ist der historisch dichteste Bereich Delhis und eine der atmosphärischsten urbanen Umgebungen der Welt.
Humayuns Grab, Qutb Minar & Lodhi-Garten — Delhis Mittelalterliches Erbe
Delhis mittelalterliches und frühes Mughal-Architekturerbe — Humayuns Grab (1572, UNESCO), der Qutb-Minar-Komplex (1193, UNESCO, das höchste Backsteinminarett der Welt) und der Lodhi-Garten — bildet eine der größten Konzentrationen mittelalterlicher islamischer Architektur außerhalb des Nahen Ostens.
Nationale Galerie für Moderne Kunst, Safdarjungs Grab & Süd-Delhi
The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA Delhi — Jaipur House, Rajpath, New Delhi, housed in the former residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur, a 1936 building redesigned as a gallery in 1954) is the premier museum of Indian modern and contemporary art, housing approximately 14,000 works spanning 1857 to the present — from the Company School paintings of the early colonial period to the Bengal Renaissance, the Bombay Progressives, and contemporary Indian installation art.
Delhi Street Food — Paranthas, Chhole Bhature & das Kulinarische Erbe Alt-Delhis
Delhi's food culture is one of the richest and most diverse in India — shaped by the 350-year Mughal imperial culinary tradition, the North Indian Punjabi tradition of dairy-rich dairy and wheat-based food, the Hindu Brahmin vegetarian tradition, the Muslim biryani and kebab traditions of Shahjahanabad, and the Rajasthani, Bengali, and South Indian cuisines brought to Delhi by migrants from across India: the result is the most comprehensive single-city food culture in India, accessible from the street stalls of Chandni Chowk to the refined restaurants of Connaught Place.
Purana Qila — Das Alte Fort & der Nationale Zoologische Park
Purana Qila (Old Fort — the massive 16th-century fortress built by the Afghan king Sher Shah Suri (1538-1545) on the site believed to be the mythological city of Indraprastha (the Pandava capital from the Mahabharata), subsequently modified by Mughal Emperor Humayun): the fort (surrounded by a large moat, with three massive gateways — the Bara Darwaza (Great Gate), the Humayun Darwaza, and the Talaqi Darwaza (Forbidden Gate) — and the Qila-i-Kuhna Mosque (Sher Shah's private mosque, 1541, one of the finest examples of the Sur dynasty architectural style) is one of the most dramatically situated fortresses in Delhi, with the National Zoological Park (the Delhi Zoo) adjacent on the west.
Dilli Haat & das Kunsthandwerk Indiens — Traditionelle Künste aus dem Subkontinent
Dilli Haat (IFC, Aurobindo Marg, South Delhi — the open-air craft bazaar operated by the Delhi Tourism Corporation, where artisans from every state of India are given two-week stalls on a rotating basis to sell their traditional crafts directly to the public): Dilli Haat is the most accessible introduction to the full diversity of Indian traditional crafts available in a single location — every visit features a different selection of artisans representing the craft traditions of different states, from Kashmiri carpet weavers and papier-mâché artists to Rajasthani block printers, Madhubani painters from Bihar, Warli tribal artists from Maharashtra, Kanjivaram silk weavers from Tamil Nadu, and Manipuri bamboo craftsmen from the Northeast.
Khan Market, Lodhi Road & die Kulturinstitutionen von Neu-Delhi
Khan Market (the upmarket shopping street in central New Delhi, built in the 1950s to serve the Government of India civil servants and diplomatic community, now consistently ranked among the most expensive retail locations in the world) and the Lodhi Road cultural corridor (the stretch of road from Khan Market south through the diplomatic enclave to the Habitat Centre and the India International Centre) form the intellectual and cultural heart of Lutyens' Delhi — the area where India's governing elite, academic community, foreign diplomats, and journalists have lived and worked since independence.