Really Big: Golkonda Fort and Qutb Shahi Tombs
December 10th 2017 These places are big, really big.
Not just big, but massive. Grand. Outlandish even.
The building blocks are huge, walls towering, and architectural details surprising at Golconda Fort, a complex of buildings that spreads over many acres and crawls up a hill. Seven kings (nizams) of the Qutb Shahi dynasty ruled over the fort from AD 1518 to AD 1687. The first three nizams built much of the f
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