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Badami Fort sits atop a red sandstone hill about 2 km from Badami town in Bagalkot district, Karnataka.
Bangalore Fort, located near Krishna Rajendra Market in Chamrajpet, Bengaluru, began as a mud fort and was later rebuilt in stone; today only the Delhi Gate…
Belagavi Fort (Belgaum Fort) is a historic fort in Belagavi, northern Karnataka, notable for housing both mosques and temples side by side within its walls…
Belur and Halebidu, near Hassan in Karnataka, are the twin capitals of the medieval Hoysala Empire, set at the foot of the Western Ghats.
Bidar Fort stands on a plateau in Bidar, northeastern Karnataka, near the borders of Maharashtra and Telangana.
Chitradurga Fort, also called "Kallina Kote" (Stone Fortress) or "Yelusuttina Kote" (Seven Circles Fort), sits on rocky, hilly terrain in Chitradurga, central…
Daria Daulat Bagh is the elegant summer palace of Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, set in a garden on the river-island of Srirangapatna near Mysuru.
Gol Gumbaz in Vijayapura (Bijapur) is the mausoleum of Sultan Mohammed Adil Shah, completed in 1656.
Hampi is an archaeological site in the open air, spread along the boulder-strewn Tungabhadra in Vijayanagara district.
Near Udupi, Kaup is famed for its 1901 lighthouse standing on black rocks, dramatic sunsets and a clean, lively stretch of golden sand.
Madhugiri is a fort wrapped around one of Asia's largest single rock hills — a bare granite monolith rising nearly 4,000 feet, its slopes stitched with walls…
Shravanabelagola is among the most important Jain pilgrimage centres, dominated by the colossal 17-metre monolithic statue of Lord Bahubali (Gomateshwara)…
Srirangapatna, an island in the Kaveri, was the capital of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan — and the place where Tipu, the Tiger of Mysore, fell defending the…