Lahore Fort|Shahi Qila|Historical|Beautiful| fort|Punjab|Pakistan

If you have ever stayed Lahore, there is a good chance that you have already taken a trip to the periods-old Lahore Fort situated in the Walled City following to Badshahi Mosque. More popularly known as Shahi Qila, it is one of the most historic forts in Pakistan. It also relishes the status of actuality one of the six UNESCO World Legacy Sites in Pakistan.

Initial history of the Fort is masked in anonymous and unknown sure is recognized about it. Customarily it is specified that the Fort was constructed as early as the city the situation and its basis is credited to mythological Loh a son of the hero of Ramayana of Legendry age (1200-800 B.C).

The true mention of the Fort is originate in joining with Muhammad Son's invasion of Lahore in 1180 A.D and was reconstructed by Emperor Balban in 1267 A.D. In the present form, it was constructed by Akbar third Mughal Emperor in 1566 A.D. who detached its mud building, used burnt brick stonework and distended it as well.

To govern its origin, digs were approved out in the Fort by the Section of Archaeology, in the exposed lawn in front of Diwan-E-Am in 1959. A ditch measuring 180 by 60 feet  placed and the excavation executed down to a depth of 50 feet attainment to the virgin soil.  As a result twenty laminated social coatings were confronted from top to lowest formed four dissimilar aeras, British and Sikh, Mughal , Pre-Mughal and the pre-Muslim.

Lahore fort is the solitary place in Pakistan which signifies the different phases in the growth of Mughal construction. It attained importance during the supremacy of Emperor Akbar. Later his successors, Jahangir, Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb added many new constructions.

The Fort is located in the north west angle of the city. It is uneven in plan being about 500 yards east to west by some 400 yards north to south. It is girdled round by a protection wall built in small vigor brick having substantial asset. At intermissions the wall has strongholds and holes for musketry.

Lahore Fort is on the UNESCO’s world inheritance list just for the reason that of this palace of mirrors and the portrait wall. Touring this palace you will realize thousands of blue, amber and clear mirrors glitter in the sunlight, producing thousands of echoes and if by accidental you are there at night, the whole palace would glow with objective one candle or light. That’s astonishing! The Sheesh Mahal is the innovative palace of valuable and the past would always rapid us about the story behind its building. It is a place whose rooms enthusiasm in a worshipers of light cast by thousands of tortuously cut and multi-colored glasses. I think that it was the Mughals who secure things in stylishness formation a difference and this palace is a proof of their elegance and stylishness

. Many people do disapprove the Mughals for structure huge and comfortable buildings but at the same time we need to learn that since of these constructions and buildings Pakistan became extensive among the world and now thousands of travelers visit such places and add to the budget of Pakistan.

As the antiquity books recommend, the site where this fort is situated once housed a heartened structure that was cited in the writings of Iranian scholar and polymath Al-Biruni back in the 11th century. Some 200 years later, after the Mongol armies entered the area and destroyed the stranglehold, Sultan of Delhi Ghiyas ud din Balban reconstructed it. Though, the structure was scratched yet again during the assault of Persian Conqueror Amir Timur. Historians claim Sultan Mubarak Shah of the Sayyid Dynasty reconstructed it.

However, it was Mughal Emperor Akbar who placed the foundation of the modern Lahore Fort in 1566 AD. The stronghold, as we know it today, went through major changes under the rule of King Akbar’s successors. After the ruin of the Mughal Empire, Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Sikh Empire lived in this fort before it was taken over by the British Armies. Next the creation of Pakistan, Lahore Fort suffered major renovation work and was later declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

You must heard a lot around the royal Lahore Fort and the constructions concealed inside it. No doubt the stronghold of Lahore is one of the unexpected buildings of its kind in the world and I gamble that while wandering inside the fort, concluded its eternities old bricks, parks, staircases and walls, you would come crossways the epic of love, pursuits, loveliness and attractiveness of queens and princesses in graceful gowns, kings and princes in shields and sparkling crowns, militaries and strivers, writers and lyricists, thinkers, designers, courtiers and courtesans, the dance girls fantasizing of being queen, killings and assassinations, chastisements and consequences, coronations, and much more.

 These epics would convey you away into a dream and leave you enthralled with the aura immediate you. The feeling begins as you reach the royal and world’s major picture wall which portrays the stories of the historical in an stimulating means, but more extraordinary constructions are ahead of this wall.

The most bulging features of this iconic fort embrace the lavish personal chambers of Emperor Shah Jahan called Naulakha Pavilion, the tortuously designed Sheesh Mahal, and the famous Picture Wall.

Location: Walled City, Lahore

Timings: 08:30 AM to 05:00 PM

Entry Fee: PKR 30

Disclaimer: Please note that the information cited in this blog has been obtained from the official website and Facebook page of Lahore Fort . Therefore, the entry ticket prices and other rates are topic to change at the decision of the resort organization.

Note: All the images have been traced from the Facebook page of Lahore fort.

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