Every monuments video worth watching in Delhi — in one place

What Delhi monuments look like

Delhi holds three UNESCO World Heritage Sites within the city limits, and the cause-and-effect runs chronologically. Qutub Minar, begun in 1192 by the first ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, is the earliest Islamic complex and the 73-metre minaret is still India’s tallest [via Top 10 Best Places]. Humayun’s Tomb, completed around 1570, was the first great garden tomb built in India and is the direct architectural blueprint that the Taj Mahal later refined [via Delhi India Travel]. Note that arriving at the gates at 6 a.m., when they open, lets you see the Persian-style symmetry before the heat and the crowds [via How To Spend]. The Red Fort, Shah Jahan’s seat of Mughal power from 1648 to 1857, anchors the third site, covers more than 2 square kilometres and shuts at 5:30 p.m. Add Jama Masjid (1658, capacity 25,000) and India Gate, and a tightly sequenced monuments day is achievable on foot plus metro.

The “How To Spend 2 Days In NEW DELHI” video is the strongest single guide for sequencing — it gives concrete gate-opening times, foreign-traveller entry prices around $6-$7, and warns about the rickshaw scam at the Humayun’s Tomb exit that insists the nearest metro is closed. Pair it with “Delhi India Travel Guide: Food, History & the Taj Mahal” for context: that video frames Humayun’s Tomb as the design that Shah Jahan later perfected in Agra, which reads the monuments as a single architectural argument rather than a checklist. Watch the food-and-history video for the thread, then the two-day itinerary for the logistics.