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Photo: Wikimedia CommonsA single hand clap at the entrance gate can be heard at the highest pavilion nearly a kilometre away, a warning built into the walls.
A massive hilltop fortress that grew from a mud fort under the Kakatiyas into the granite citadel of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, once the seat of a kingdom famous for the diamonds that passed through its markets, including the Koh-i-Noor.
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Legend says a sultan prayed for a plague to end and vowed to build a mosque on the very spot where he prayed if it did.
A 58-foot Buddha of granite, the world's tallest of its kind, stands in the middle of a 16th-century lake.
Twelve doorways let breezes cross through this Qutb Shahi pavilion, now a place for cultural performance.