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Aurangabad Map, India

If you feel like you need some help to find your way in your destination city, you are in the right place. This Aurangabad Map will certainly help you to seek out the best restaurants, clubs and sights in town. You want to know what is the best place for a walk? Or what you should be watching out for during your visit? Learn more about the best things to do in the city reading our travel tips and then get around in Aurangabad with Travelgrove's map. While searching for places, you can also check some cheap flights or deals or you can take a look at our user's galleries about the city. We hope you will find our city map of Aurangabad useful. Enjoy your trip and come back to share your travel experience about Aurangabad!

Aurangabad Travel Guide

You get to see various architectural influences in Aurangabad – it needs no emphasizing that these influences are characteristic of the period/reign it represents. Thus, you will come across many century-old structures like the Ajanta Caves, Aurangabad Caves, Ellora Caves, Daulatabad Fort, Bibi-Ka-Maqbara and Ghrishneshwar Temple in Aurangabad. A number of modern buildings (mostly malls/plazas and departmental... read more

Aurangabad Sightseeing

Bibi-ka-Maqbara, also known as the mini Taj because of its similarity to the grand Agra mausoleum, is a wonderful work of Mughal architecture. It is the tomb of Emperor Aurangzeb’s wife, Begum Rabia Durani. (Aurangzeb’s body was buried in the holy village of Khuldabad by his orders; his tomb is far too simple and is not marked by any stately grandeur.) read more

Aurangabad History

Thereafter, the control of the region passed on to local Muslim rulers. It is widely believed that the foundation of the modern city was laid during this period (around 1610) by Malik Ambar, who was the Prime Minister of the then Deccan ruler, Murtaza Nizam Shah II of Ahmednagar. Ambar named the city Fatehpura after his son Fateh Khan. read more

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