Mughal Gardens

Mughal Gardens

The Bagh was built by Mughal Emperor Jahangir for his wife Noor Jahan, in 1619. The Bagh is considered the high point of Mughal horticulture. It is now a public park. This time it's also called as crown of Srinagar. The common features that all Mughal Gardens share is the rectilinear layouts within the walled structure with canals, fountains, pools of running water, and several species of shade-providing trees, flowers, fruits, and aromatic grasses. Fundamentally, the Mughal gardens have had edifices in a symmetrical arrangement within enclosed towns with provisions for water channels, cascades, water tanks and fountains etc. Thus, the Mughals maintained the tradition of building fourfold (chaharbagh)-symmetrical garden.