Agra Fort also known as the Red Fort, in the historic city of Agra, India

 "Everywhere we went we were greeted with the Añjali Mudrā gesture and the word Namaste, indicating 'I bow to the divine in you.” ― Karl Wiggins

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(in Uttar Pradesh, India) Agra Fort, also known as the Red Fort, is a large 16th-century fortress of red sandstone that is found on the Yamuna River in the historic city of Agra, in west-central Uttar Pradesh. Established by the Mughal emperor Akbar and, in its capacity as both a military base and a royal residence, it served as the seat of government when the Mughal capital was in Agra. The structure, a contemporary of Humāyūn’s Tomb in Delhi (about 125 miles [200 km] to the northwest) reflects the architectural grandeur of the Mughal reign in India. (The fort complex was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1983.) Connected to another of Agra’s renowned monuments, the Taj Mahal (downstream, around a bend in the Yamuna), by a swath of parkland and gardens, the fort was commissioned by Akbar in 1565 and reportedly took eight years to construct. The walls of the roughly crescent-shaped structure have a circumference of about 1.5 miles (2.5 km), rise 21 meters high, and are surrounded by a moat. The Yamuna River originally flowed along the straight eastern edge of the fort, and the emperors had their own bathing ghats here.