 Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan and on this channel you will find financial travel and more videos. If you like what you see, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing. Thank you. Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan and you are watching one of my India travel videos. And today I am taking you to the Agra Fort or the Red Fort which is located on the bank of the Yamuna River in Agra, India. And this is to be the residence of the Mughal Empires in the 17th century. I will give you some highlights and will describe some of the features and locations of the fort as I go along. For example, the blueish color you are looking at right now on the wall, those are actually not paintings. They are real stones and they were imported from Afghanistan at that time. But except the blueish color, the other parts of this wall is painting or red sandstone but the blue ones are actual stones. The Agra Fort is a massive red sandstone fort which stretches 2.5 kilometers in circumference and had more than 500 buildings inside and lots of underground chambers. It's like a city within the boundaries of a fort. Today only 30 buildings survive inside the fort. There are several lush gardens throughout the fort and in this section which is in Jahangir's Palace you will find a large black stone bowl which is to be used as a bathtub by the Empires and they used to take a bath in this black sandstone bowl. Some of the sections inside the fort were hollow inside the wall so that let the voice travel from one place to another place and that's how I believe they communicate and this is ancient technology where they used to hear or talk from other parts of the fort. The section you are looking at is to be the library for the 4th Emperor Jahangir and if you look on the wall those like shelf-like places in the wall actually used as a bookshelf right there and there used to be books and the whole place is to be a library and then there were like paintings on the roof and on the wall as well. Red Fort has 4 gates and one of them leads to the river and 40,000 workers worked 8 years to build this fort. You can't see them anymore. The whole palace was covered by handmade carpets, Persian carpets and handcrafted art level on the wall and to match the art of the wall they also put the same design on the roof of the same room. So for example if you look at the ceiling right now the same design carpet covered the whole section of this place and this happened throughout the palace but here you can just see one example how it worked out. Agra Fort is situated by Yamuna River and in those times the water level in the river was very high. You can actually see the Taj Mahal from here if you look closely that's the Taj Mahal. So due to the high water level to protect the fort from the water and everything they had some sort of water system built close to the river which you can see a little bit here and that just protected the river from the high water. And here I'm just trying to zoom the Taj Mahal. It's a wonderful view from a distance. Throughout the history the Red Fort or Agra Fort was occupied by several different Maharaja kings and empires. So the section you're looking at actually represents the original brick made section and this used to be from one of the Hindu Maharaja King Adal Singh and then later on as several other Mughal empires took control of the fort then they added more extensions and they changed the designing and they added marble work and red sandstone. So this is one of the original designs which still exists today and that's how a majority of the fort used to be in the past times before all the added renovations and extensions were added by the Mughal empires. So this part is made of brick. Different emperor built different parts of the palace and it's named after them. So this is the red part which was built by Jahangir and called Jahangir Palace and the white part which was built by Shah Jahan and it's called Shah Jahan Palace. This section is known as Summer Palace. During the summer the royal used to live here or stay here because the walls are actually hollow so there is some sort of water flow in between which made the boat less cooler and then it was not that hot inside here. You have to think that you have to know that there's no electricity at the time so you know there's no fan, there's no air pollution, there's no nothing. So that's how the empires used to make their commissioning in this palace using ancient technology by flowing the water between the walls. Can you talk again? Yes, can you hear me? Okay, let me just see where you are standing. You're looking at the cross ventilation system which lets the air flow so that makes the space cooler. So if you look on the top right you'll see the hollow ventilation and that's how without electricity those days they used to keep the space cooler. The section of palace is the Shah Jahan Palace because this is the white section and then Shah Jahan had two daughters and you're going to be looking at one of the bedrooms used by one of the daughters which is right there. So right those buildings, part of the bedrooms is by Shah Jahan's daughter. We're looking at several bedrooms and place together and this is to be a garden in the past so the Mughal empires used to bring wine. At this location they loved wine and the wine was prepared kind of homemade and they used to bring wine here in the section so this is known as the place where the empires bring wine. This whole section is actually one of the master bedrooms so you're looking at this place which is a bedroom and there's to be lots of decorations and even the gold plated decorations in the past but now you can just see some of the ruins and this is a huge bedroom. This is another bedroom used by another daughter so they're just kind of close but you know they're separated so the first bedroom I showed you is like one daughter and the second bedroom is by another daughter and then there are like another bedrooms and then we already saw the huge master bedroom. The octagonal section of this palace is where the emperor who called Taj Mahal Shah Jahan was arrested by his son and he spent his last few years here with his favorite daughter and it was his wish that he would like to... that Taj Mahal is visible from this section so it was his last wish that he wanted to spend the rest of his life looking at the Taj Mahal so basically he died here and he lived his last few years with his daughter looking at the Taj Mahal. So this is a prison kind of prison but it's actually not really a prison but a palace from which you can see the Taj Mahal across the river. This section is called the glass palace so there's like a pool or a tub inside it and then there's a dressing room and then on the wall there are lots of tiny mirrors and those mirrors are very high quality mirrors and which had to be imported from Syria at that time so the whole place is covered by lots of tiny mirrors and this section is now open to the tourists but you can see it from outside you cannot go inside. The whole fort has lots of lush gardens and you're just looking at one of them and there's going to be a place where the empires used to give visitations to the kings and the guests so you're looking at just one section so this is another garden right here and then you're looking at a section where the empires used to show up to meet other kings or guests so this section right there where the empires met the kings and gave visitations to people so this is one of the sections used by the empires to meet and greet people and kings This is one of the gates called Elephant Gate and here the people used to throw flowers at the empires and they used to pass through these gates so that's all for this video if you like what you see please give it a thumbs up and subscribe because there will be more travel videos coming up from India so I'll see you shortly Thank you