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Dubai has a Taj too!!

January 31, 2006 18:06 IST

Spread over a massive 400,000 square feet, the replica of famed monument Taj Mahal is now completed at the Global Village in Dubai is drawing thousands of visitors' everyday.

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Zee Television and the NRI-owned Dubai Hotel Grand have sponsored the project.

The replica in Dubai has been created in just three months by 600 people, of which 270 artisans were flown from India to recreate the magical splendor of the original.

Photograph: Nasser Younes/AFP/Getty Images