India's capital and one of the world's great layered cities, where seven historic cities and three empires overlap. Its Mughal heart is Old Delhi, the walled Shahjahanabad that Shah Jahan built around his Red Fort, a maze of bazaars, mosques, temples and a Sikh shrine along the old avenue of Chandni Chowk. Nearby stands Humayuns Tomb, the garden-mausoleum that was the blueprint for the Taj Mahal. Read the last Mughal capital and its monuments at your own pace.