{"id":5654,"date":"2005-01-17T21:32:25","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T13:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:19:27","slug":"unesco-here-there-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2005\/01\/17\/unesco-here-there-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO: Here, There, and Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I continue with the Indian government tours around Delhi and Agra with many tourists with close Indian ties, I’m discovering that five of our stops are actually beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In addition to the Taj Mahal<\/a>, there was also the Agra Red Fort<\/a>, Delhi’s Red Fort<\/a>, and the following…<\/p>\n

Jantar Mantar Observatory (Built in 1724), New Delhi, India<\/strong> (similar to a UNESCO site in Jaipur)<\/p>\n

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Jantar Mantar Observatory (Built in 1724), New Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jantar
Jantar Mantar Observatory (Built in 1724), New Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jantar
Jantar Mantar Observatory (Built in 1724), New Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jantar
Jantar Mantar Observatory (Built in 1724), New Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jantar
Jantar Mantar Observatory (Built in 1724), New Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jantar
Jantar Mantar Observatory (Built in 1724), New Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jantar
Jantar Mantar Observatory (Built in 1724), New Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun (1558), Delhi, India<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"The
The Tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun (commissioned in 1558), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The Tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun (commissioned in 1558), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The Tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun (commissioned in 1558), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The Tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun (commissioned in 1558), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The Tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun (commissioned in 1558), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The Tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun (commissioned in 1558), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The Tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun (1558), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Chipmunk
Chipmunk in Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The Tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun (commissioned in 1558), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The Tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun (commissioned in 1558), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The Tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun (commissioned in 1558), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The Tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun (1558), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Visitors
Visitors to the Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings from the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Visitors
Visitors to the Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings from the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Parrots
Parrots perched on the Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Visitors
Visitors to the Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings from the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Monuments
Monuments and Buildings of the Qutb Minar complex (finished in 1368), Delhi, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I continue with the Indian government tours around Delhi and Agra with many tourists with close Indian ties, I’m discovering that five of our stops are actually beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In addition to the Taj Mahal, there was also the Agra Red Fort, Delhi’s Red Fort, and the following… Jantar Mantar Observatory… Continue reading UNESCO: Here, There, and Everywhere<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-india","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sHuW-1tc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5681,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions\/5681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}