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- Online Virtual
Tour: click here -
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Views from the Taj Mahal's Roof, Minarets & Crypt (normally closed to the public) -
- Includes
360° Panoramas, Movies, Photos, Descriptive Narration, Maps, Music and Text -
- Downloadable
Assets (here) for Schools, and integrated Text for Hearing-Impaired visitors -
The
Sunday Times (London) says - |
Downloadable Assets for Schools and non-commercial use
26
January 2008 - French President Visits India's Taj Mahal
French
President Nicolas Sarkozy has made a visit to India's famed Taj Mahal,
but without
his model-singer girlfriend, Carla Bruni. The Taj Mahal in the city of Agra
was closed to the public for a few hours Saturday, so Mr. Sarkozy
could tour
the 17th-century Moghul monument.
- VOA
News
1
October 2007 - Ben Kingsley to star in Taj Mahal romance -
Sir
Ben Kingsley is to return to India to make a film based on the romance that inspired
the building
of the Taj Mahal. The role of Mumtaz has fallen to Aishwarya Rai,
once described by fellow actress
Julia Roberts as
"the most beautiful woman in the world".
- Telegraph.co.uk
29
August 2007 - Taj Mahal closed to tourists after India riots -
Police
closed the Taj Mahal and placed parts of Agra city under
curfew on Wednesday after Indian Muslims
burned trucks and battled police
to protest the deaths of four community members hit by a lorry.
- Washington
Post.com
7
July 2007 - New 7 Wonders of the World: Taj Mahal -
India's
Taj Mahal, The Great Wall
of China, and Rome's Colosseum
were among the new seven wonders of the
world
chosen in a global poll released on Saturday.
- WashingtonPost.com
In
December 1631, the fifth Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan, commenced the construction of one Our online virtual tour enables visitors to interactively explore the "UNESCO World Heritage Site", the Taj Mahal at Agra in India. Visitors may tour 22 different areas of the monument and gardens through 360° panoramas, maps, narrated mini-movies, music and text. A small 360° panorama above a clickable map allows a quick view of any area. Having spotted something of interest, visitors can then click to open a window with a much larger and higher quality 360° panorama, and then zoom in and pan around for a detailed inspection. For example: To view the inlaid semi-precious stones on the Dome itself. At any point, visitors can view narrated mini-movies about the people, architecture, politics and history of the site (also includes full Text for the hearing-impaired). An easy-to-follow map also ensures that, unlike a real tourist, our virtual visitors can jump around the gardens and monument with a single click. There are even exclusive 360° panoramic views taken from the Roof and in the Crypt of the monument - these areas are completely Off-Limits to the public. All of our panoramas have descriptive narration, music, integrated text for the hearing-impaired, and MS Word files with pictures. |
We highly recommend "Brings
the Taj to Life!" |
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