Tour in Bangladesh Part-1(Dhaka Division)

                         

                Lalbagh Fort

The stronghold of Aurongobad, readily notorious as the Lalbagh castle, was built in 1678 A.D by the then vice-roi of Bengal Prince Mohammad Azam, lad of the Moghal monarch Aurongazeb. The fastness has a three étages composition with meager minarets at the South gateway. It has numerous unseen passages and a mosque of gigantic construction. Wonderful amid the monuments of the Lalbagh stronghold are the grave of Pari Bibi (Fairy lady) and viewers scope and Hummam Khana (dip rest) of Nawab Sayesta Khan, currently lodging a museum.


The castle was the outlook of wounded scuffle through the former battle of liberty (1857) after 260 spays stationed at this juncture backed by the nation aghast beside British services. It is one of the enormous chronological chairs of Mughal epoch. A tiny museum is here in this fortress somewhere you motivation come across the attire and weaponry of the Moghols.

Lalbagh citadel is in the mature decision of Dhaka at Lalbagh. It is unlock 10 am-5 pm Sunday to Friday & Saturday is clogged.

The principal capital Dhaka chiefly was a capital of the Moghols. In hundred years of their dynamic regulation following authority and significant Viceroys who feint the state, ornamented it with numerous decent monuments in the profile of brilliant chairs, mosques, tombs, ramparts and 'Katras' repeatedly surrounded with marvelously fixées elsewhere private grounds and pavilions. Amongst these, little have survécu the havoc of time, antagonistic steamy environment of the terrain and ruffian hands of male.

But the optimum case of this epoch is the Aurangabad fortress [frequently acknowledged as Lalbagh fortress], which to be sure represents the disgruntled hallucination of a Moghol Prince. It occupies the southwestern element of the elderly municipality, overlooking the Burigangha on whose nord collection it stands as a noiseless lookout of the mature urban.

Rectangular in graph, it enserre an vicinity of 1082' by 800' and in adding together to its polished lofty passerelles on southeast and northeast lieus and a ancillary tiny unaffected entryway on north, it and contains surrounded by its equipped boundary a amount of marvelous monuments, bordered by nice-looking garden. These are a tiny vaulted mosque, the burial assembly room of Bibi Pari the alleged descendant of Nawab Shayesta Khan and the Hammam and viewers Hall of the administrator. The key purpose of this stronghold was to supply a cynical enclosed space of the extravagant edifices of the core and as such was a form of palais-forteresse somewhat than a cordon fortress.