Built by Mughal Emperor Jehangir in 1616 to display his love to his beautiful wife Nur Jahan, the Char Minar garden offers amazing view of the surroundings, flowers, lakes and shallow terraces. The Shalimar Mughal Gardens, a very well known garden of love, consisting of four terraces, is made such that going up one above the other. The top terrace, the imposing garden, was reserved for the Mughal Emperor and the royal ladies of the court.
There is also a stream wrinkled with fantastically polished stones in the middle of the Garden. The Shalimar garden demonstrates the imaginative and flourishing designing of beautiful places, which includes the channeling of a stream in the midst of the Garden. No tourist can miss this garden while visiting Srinagar.