Sharza Gate, Bidar Fort, Bidar, Karnataka, India
Sultan Alla-Ud-Din Bahman of the Bahmanid Dynasty shifted his capital from Gulbarga to Bidarin 1427 and built his fort along with a number of Islamic monuments. The Bidar fort, constructed on the edge of the plateau, has a haphazard quadrangular layout plan of miles ( km) in length and miles ( km) breadth. The peripheral length of the fort walls measure 4,500 yards (4,100 m). The walls, bastions, gates and barbicans of Bidar, though in ruins, are well preserved and considered as some of the most stylish in India. It is surrounded by a triple moat. The south-east entrance to the fort has a sequence of three gates. The door with metal spikes on the left belongs to the first gate. The Sharza gate is next, so-called because of the sculpted basalt lions on the arched entrance. The parapet above this has a band of coloured tiles.
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