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13 places to explore — hand-picked across Karnataka.
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Badami Fort sits atop a red sandstone hill about 2 km from Badami town in Bagalkot district, Karnataka. Badami (ancient Vatapi) was the capital of the Chalukya dynasty, and the fort overlooks the t…
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 and two bastions survive. It marks the f…
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, including the Safa Masjid. It is current…
Belur and Halebidu, near Hassan in Karnataka, are the twin capitals of the medieval Hoysala Empire, set at the foot of the Western Ghats. Their temples are carved from fine-grained soapstone (chlor…
Bidar Fort stands on a plateau in Bidar, northeastern Karnataka, near the borders of Maharashtra and Telangana. Built from red laterite stone as an irregular rhombus with double lines of defensive …
Chitradurga Fort, also called "Kallina Kote" (Stone Fortress) or "Yelusuttina Kote" (Seven Circles Fort), sits on rocky, hilly terrain in Chitradurga, central Karnataka, known for its seven concent…
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. Built largely of teak in 1784 in the Indo-Sarac…
Gol Gumbaz in Vijayapura (Bijapur) is the mausoleum of Sultan Mohammed Adil Shah, completed in 1656. Crowned by one of the largest masonry domes in the world, it is famous for its Whispering Galler…
Hampi is an open-air archeological destination along the banks of the boulder-strewn Tungabhadra River in the Vijayanagara district. Spanning a massive area of over 41 square kilometers, it preserv…
Near Udupi, Kaup is famed for its 1901 lighthouse standing on black rocks, dramatic sunsets and a clean, lively stretch of golden sand. The best months to visit are roughly November to February, w…
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, bastions and gateways. Built up by loc…
Shravanabelagola is among the most important Jain pilgrimage centres, dominated by the colossal 17-metre monolithic statue of Lord Bahubali (Gomateshwara) atop Vindhyagiri hill — one of the world's…
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 breach in 1799 in the last great battle agai…
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