The city made famous by the magnificent Taj Mahal - the seventh wonder of the world! A small city but an intrinsic part of the Indian tourist triangle of Delhi, Agra and Jaipur. Once the capital of the Mughal empire, in the 16th and 17th centuries, strains of its former glory are still reflected in the city.

Sikandar Lodi chose to make Agra his capital in 1501. The early Mughal emperors too ruled from Agra. Some of the monuments in this city date back to the reigns of the Mughal emperors Babur and Humayun. It was Humayun's son Akbar, who ruled from Fatehpur Sikri between 1570 and 1585 and once again from 1599 to 1605 (having moved to Lahore for a short period of time) and his grandson Jehangir who initiated Agra's ascent to glory! Jehangir, however, chose to spend much of his time in the beautiful Kashmir Valley. It was Shah Jahan who built the Jama Masjid, some of the buildings in Agra Fort and of course, the glorious Taj Mahal!

The Mughal capital moved to Delhi in 1648. Later, the city suffered as it passed on to the Jats and later the Marathas and eventually came into the hands of the British in 1803.