The legend that mixes with the gold side a darker aspect, relates that the sultan Mughal Shah Jehan decided to erect this monument to honor his favorite wife, Mumtaz mahal, whose beauty and intelligencewere remarkable.
Not finding a builder in his empire at the height at his project he called a Persian architect, murdering his bride so that he could feel the pain of this loss and find inspiration
Pharaonic work spread out for more than 20 years, and marble was brought for far away.
Shah Jehan´s intention was to be buried in a twin mausoleum similar to the Taj Mahal, but his son Aurangzeb, who by then had taken over the power, thought of the financial aspect of his father´s project and decided to lock him up in the Red Fort where he could look at the beautiful Taj Mahal till the end of his life.
In fact the visit of Agra can relocate the Taj Mahal as the fulfillment of an architectural movement in which we find the Red Fort and Itimâd Ud Daula´s mausoleum, , known as the Baby Taj. It is as well the tomb of the emperor Jahangir´s father in law, Mirza Beg Ghiyas.
