Mehtab Bagh
Mughal garden opposite the Taj Mahal, with a pool aligned to reflect its white dome at sunset.
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This guide to Mehtab Bagh in Agra follows Shah Jahan's Moonlight Garden, built to frame the Taj Mahal from across the Yamuna, and the second tomb he reportedly dreamed of raising for himself on this bank. It traces how his son Aurangzeb's confinement of him ended that plan, and a nineteenth-century excavation that seemed, for a time, to confirm the legend. Best visited at dusk, facing the river.
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