Markets & Shopping
Dilli Haat
An open-air crafts market where artisans from every state rotate through fixed stalls, with a food…
1 hr 30 min
₹30
A 73-metre victory tower begun in 1193, surrounded by the ruins of India's earliest mosque complex and a 1,600-year-old iron pillar that has barely rusted.
Don't miss
- The five-storey minaret
- Iron Pillar of Delhi
- Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque
- Alai Darwaza
- Time needed
- 1 hr 15 min
- Entry
- ₹35
- Foreign visitors
- ₹550
- Best time
- Morning
- Photography
- Allowed
- Parking
- Available
Works well for
Family
Couple
Friends
Corporate
Solo
Kids
Tips from our editors
The gardens are as good as the tower. Mehrauli Archaeological Park next door is free, almost empty and full of tombs — worth an extra hour.
Where it is
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Devotional & Spiritual
Lotus Temple
A Bahá'í house of worship shaped like a 27-petal lotus, open to every faith and silent inside by rule.
1 hr
Free entry
Parks & Gardens
Lodhi Garden
Ninety acres of lawns and jogging paths built around 15th-century Sayyid and Lodhi tombs — the most…
1 hr
Free entry
Must visit
Historic & Heritage
Humayun's Tomb
The first great Mughal garden tomb, and the design that the Taj Mahal descends from — quieter, cheaper…
1 hr 30 min
₹35