{"id":2676,"date":"2023-02-04T07:08:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T01:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2025-03-25T23:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:06:49","slug":"agra-fort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/agra-fort\/","title":{"rendered":"Agra Fort"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Agra Fort:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a large <strong>16th-century fortress of red sandstone located on the Yamuna Rive<\/strong>r in the historic city of <strong>Agra<\/strong>, west-central <strong>Uttar Pradesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is about <strong>2.5 km northwest<\/strong> of its more famous sister monument, the <strong>TajMahal.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>built under the commission of Emperor Akbar<\/strong> in 1565.<\/li>\n<li>It was only during the reign of Akbar\u2019s grandson, <strong>Shah Jahan, that the site took on its current state.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was the <strong>main residence of the emperors of the Mughal Dynasty till 1638<\/strong>, when the capital was shifted from Agra to Delhi.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<li>The fort is <strong>crescent-shaped<\/strong>, with a long, nearly <strong>straight wall facing the Yamuna<\/strong> river on the east side.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The fort <strong>houses a maze of buildings<\/strong>, including vast <strong>underground sections.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>outer wall is surrounded by a wide and deep moat on three sides.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Agra Fort has four main gateways<\/strong>&#8211; the Khizri Gate, Amar Singh Gate, Delhi Gate and Ghazni Gate.<\/li>\n<li>The fort complex was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1983.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a UNESCO World Heritage site?<\/h3>\n<p>World Heritage Sites are cultural and\/or natural sites considered to be of \u2018Outstanding Universal Value\u2019, which have been inscribed on the World Heritage List by the World Heritage Committee.<br \/>\n<strong>Source:\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/delhi\/agra-fort-shivaji-jayanti-asi-delhi-high-court-8422488\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Agra Fort a protected national monument, can\u2019t allow private body to organizeShivajiJayanti function: ASI to Delhi High Court<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agra Fort is a large 16th-century fortress of red sandstone located on the Yamuna River<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}