Bagh-e Babur is located on the slopes of Kuh-e Sher Darwaza, southwest of the old city of Kabul. The garden is c. 11.5 ha large and arranged in 15 terraces along a central axis in east west direction.

In January 2022, the authorities in Afghanistan submitted a nomination dossier to Unesco to list Bagh-e Babur (Babur’s Garden) as one of its properties. However, the United Nations (UN ...

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His mortal remains, exhumed from a tomb in Agra, were interred in Bagh-e-Babur, a garden he had commissioned himself. Today, the sprawling, walled 11-hectare garden is not only a tourist ...

The Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) together with the Historical Cities Support Group and UN Habitat are peeling open a slice of history at the Bagh-e-Babur, the gardens that are named for Babur ...

"Here in the Bagh-e Babur, what we saw in 1994 was wreckage, broken trees, shells fired. The beautiful 17th century marble mosque here was full of bullet holes. All we saw was despair and ugliness." ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Today Kabul is synonymous with war, destruction and security checkpoints. Creating peaceful gardens in the ...

His mortal remains, exhumed from a tomb in Agra, were interred in Bagh-e-Babur, a garden he had commissioned himself. Today, the sprawling, walled 11-hectare garden is not only a tourist ...

Well, sitting here at the Bagh-e Babur (The Garden of Babur) in Kabul, where the Mughal emperor’s body was put to rest in 1540 after first being buried in Agra (he had wished to be buried in the ...

Mehtab Bagh is situated opposite of the Taj Mahal on the northern side of the Yamuna River. These gardens are the last of Emperor Babur's 11 gardens that once lined the river. Babur is the founder ...