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Pakistan restores world’s largest picture wall in Lahore Fort
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Pakistan restores world’s largest picture wall in Lahore Fort

A wall full of stories and events came into life after so many efforts. Picture wall of Lahore Fort is finally restored and open to display to tourists in 2019. Mughals gave a lot of beautiful monuments to the world. Even today architects devour their sense of construction and elegance. They changed the whole idea of construction in India and it's whereabouts in the 16th century. Lahore Fort is one of their marvelous creation built in the 1500s. The main part of the fort is its magnificent picture wall stand outside the Jehangir's entrance door. There are various decorative schemes uses on the façade including the typologies of glazed tile mosaic work, filigree work, fresco painting,  brick imitation work, glazed lime plaster, pietra dura work, stone fretwork, cut and dressed bri...