The Red fortress was located in the Old Delhi territory, India.
The fortress that currently is located around the Netaji Subhash Marg road and Mahatma Gandhi Marg to be finished were built in 1648.
The beginning of the development of this very beautiful fortress was on the orders of Shah Jahan, the ruler of the Mughal dynasty of the seventh.

After the death of his wife who was named Mumtaz Mahal, of Shah Jahan that began to have the power in 1628, to move the centre of his government of Agra to Delhi.

He then built the new city, Shahjahanabad (currently Old Delhi), and established his new palace in the city that terlatak between Aravalli hills and the Yamuna River.
During 1638 Shah Jahan began to be constructive the Merah Fortress (Red Fort/Lal Qila), the complex that he make function as the fortress, the palace and the garden.

The name Red fortress because of the wall of his giant build the red sandstone that covered his eight sides.
The long wall from the end of Shahjanabad in a long manner all of them 2,5 kilometre and high varied between 16 metre and 33 metre.
In the fortress complex that in 1857 could be damaged by English troops and was restored in 1903 was gotten the palace building got dressed up various paintings and the glasses ornament, the pavilion, the place of religious duties, the wide street, the market, the wife's residence and the king's mistress and the garden.

All the buildings in the fortress complex that was surrounded 14 gates were in an architecture style typical Mughal and was the stylish Mughal palace complex best in the peak period of the glory of Shah Jahan.
Only was not beautiful, the monumental building, also was the important witness the history trip of the Indian rulers.
In the fortress so the colonial English government ended the authority of the Mughal dynasty, that governed for three centuries, with the fall Knight Shah Zafar, the last king of the Mughal dynasty, from his throne.

In the modern era this fortress also had the high value of the history.
Where in Lahore Gate that was the main main gate of this fortress, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru proclaimed Indian independence on August 15 1947 and since that time in every year, in the date was same Indian President read out his Politic speech.