Excursion Heritage

Aurangabad Travel

Aurangabad is located in Maharashtra state and is known for its medieval monuments and cultural heritage. Aurangzeb, the last great Mughal ruler, took over this city in 1653 and renamed it as Aurangabad. The famous tomb, Bibi-ka-Makbara, has poor shades of resemblance to the Taj Mahal and the river Kham flows in the vicinity. The world heritage sites of Ajanta and Ellora are outside the city limits. These sites have Buddhist, Jain and Hindu temples.

There is a profusion of Buddhist cave temples in and around Aurangabad, of which caves of Ajanta and Ellora are foremost in tradition. Other attractions are Panchakki (water wheel), the Tomb of Baba Shah Muzaffar, a Sufi Saint, Purwar Museum, fortress of Daulatabad, Grishneshwar temple is a Jyotirlinga where Lord Shiva is worshipped, Bani Begum Gardens, Pithalkora caves and Mhaismal.

Aurangabad the only tourist district of India having two-world heritage monuments to its credit. Moreover it is hoped that there will be good addition of two more in near future. Barring these heritage monuments of Ajanta, Ellora, Daulatabad and Bibi-Ka-Maqbara the district is rich in monuments, historical and religious, of National importance. Hence, it deserves the epithet as Tourist District of India. Realizing its International Status the erstwhile central Minister for Tourism and Culture rightly praised the tremendous tourism potentiality of this district in one of the International Press- Met. (Mayami U.S.A. Press Meet.).

The District of Aurangabad has over the centuries become a meeting place of life styles as it is centrally located on the map of India. It has witnessed the rise and fall of many dynastic such as the Setavachanas, the Vaustokas, the Chalukyas, the Rastrakutas, the Yadavs spanning fifteen centuries till the advent of Muslim rule at the very end of the thirteenth century.

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