GATES, TOWERS AND PILLARS OF THE WORLD

• Buland darwaza, a 38 metre high gate built in Fatehpur Sikri India, by Akbar to commemorate his victory over Khandesh.
  



• Bharhut stupa, a Buddhist hemispherical stone monument found near Satna in Madhya Pradesh, India. The stone railings of the monument illustrate in carvings the episodes of Buddha’s life in great detail. Now removed to Calcutta Museum.
  



• Dhwajastambhas at Ellora, stone flagstaffs in the famous Kailash temple of Ellora caves, India.
  



• Eiffel Towers, 800 metre high tower build in Paris all from steel by Gustav Eiffel at a high cost. It is now used as a wireless station.
  



• Gatgeway of India, build in Appolo Bunder, Bombay, India to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary of U.K to India in 1911 A.D
  
  



• Golgumbaz, one of the largest domes of the world in Bijapur Karnataka, India, which covers a floor area of 1630 sq. metre. It is built on the tomb of sultan Mohammed Adil Shah.
  



• Leaning tower, a marble tower in Pisa. Italy, leaning to one side as the name suggests. On its north it is 55 metre high and on its south 541/2 metre.
  



• Ostan Kimo, television tower in Moscow envisaged to be the world’s tallest building.
  



• Qutb minar, a 721/2 metre high stone tower in Delhi, the highest in India, said to have been build in 1199 A.D by Qutb-ud-din Aibak as victory tower but it is disputed by many scholars who claim it to have been build by a Gupta Emperor as an observatory.
  



• Sanchi stupa, one of the earliest stupas of India, near Bhopal in Sanchi, 17 metre in height and 361/2 metre in diameter, hemispherical in shape and made of bricks and sandstone.
  



• Sarnath stupa, a huge stone structure 32 metre high and 28 metre in diameter constructed at a spot in Sarnath near Varanasi U.P India, where Buddha delivered his first sermon.