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Fatehpur Sikri was built by Emperor Akbar between 1571 and 1585 as his new Mughal capital, laid out in a single planned act of urban design on a sandstone ridge 40 kilometres west of Agra. Abandoned after just 14 years — reputedly because the water supply failed — the city was left almost perfectly intact, its palaces, mosques, audience halls and public buildings frozen in a moment of high Mughal sophistication. The blend of Hindu and Islamic architectural vocabularies is more complete here than anywhere else: Akbar deliberately fused the traditions to represent his syncretic court. The result is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of haunting beauty and exceptional completeness — an entire city with no later additions, preserved in the dry Deccan air.
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