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Photo: Photo by Pinakpani via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)A city abandoned within years of completion. Legend blames a curse by the saint Nizamuddin Auliya, and water shortages are the other story.
A 14th-century fortified city built by Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, founder of the Tughlaq dynasty, as the capital of the Delhi Sultanate. Its massive sloping stone ramparts, once enclosing a thriving city, were reportedly abandoned within years due to water shortages after a curse by Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya, according to popular legend. The fort complex includes Tughlaq's own mausoleum, connected to the fort by a causeway. Though now largely in ruins, its scale still conveys the ambitions of Delhi Sultanate-era military architecture.
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108 stone steps lead down to what was once a deep water tank, between walls built to pull your eye toward the water.
Feroz Shah Tughlaq had an Ashokan pillar moved here, and it still stands among the ruins of his fortress.
Gandhi lived here for his last 144 days, from 9 September 1947. On 30 January 1948 he was assassinated on these grounds, and a line of footsteps cast in concrete traces his last walk to the prayer meeting.