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A Windsor Castle look-alike in the heart of Bengaluru, still privately owned by the Wadiyar royal family.
Tipu Sultan's teakwood retreat, its pillars painted with flowers that blend Hindu and Islamic traditions.
It began as a mud fort in 1537. After the British breached it in 1791, only a gate and a small Ganesha shrine were left.
A Windsor Castle look-alike in the heart of Bengaluru, still privately owned by the Wadiyar royal family.
Legend says the bull grew so large it threatened nearby groundnut crops. Carved from a single block of granite, it still stands over four metres tall.
Laid out in 1870, Bengaluru's green lung is shaded by century-old rain trees.
Where a jail once held freedom fighters, a park now stands, keeping a section of the old wall and a watchtower.
Founded in the 1860s, one of India's oldest museums keeps Indus Valley artefacts, Hoysala sculpture and even Egyptian mummies.
A decommissioned MiG-21 and an HF-24 Marut tell the story of the aircraft India built for itself.
Several hundred preserved human brains, among the largest such collections in Asia, help show what neurological and psychiatric conditions do.
India's first interactive music museum, where you can play virtual instruments and follow music from ancient temple songs to Bollywood.
Home to one of India's largest collections of Mysore and Tanjore paintings, and to miniatures from Rajasthan, Mysore and the Deccan.
Established in 1760 on 240 acres, its glass house was modelled on London's Crystal Palace.
Tipu Sultan built a palace on these hills, a military stronghold during the Anglo-Mysore wars.
Older than the city itself, this Chola-era Shiva temple by Ulsoor Lake stood for centuries before Kempe Gowda founded Bengaluru.
Modelled on London's St Paul's, it has hosted state functions and memorial services since colonial times.
Each September its feast draws hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, whatever their faith.
Tipu Sultan's teakwood retreat, its pillars painted with flowers that blend Hindu and Islamic traditions.
One of Bengaluru's oldest lakes, believed to date to Kempe Gowda in the 16th century, still made for boating and evening walks.
A court painter to the Mysore royal family is remembered here through his own paintings, sculptures and personal belongings.
Named for an engineer-statesman whose birthday, 15 September, is celebrated as Engineers' Day, with a motion simulator and a robotics gallery inside.