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Dodda Basavana Gudi (Bull Temple)
A Vijayanagara-style shrine on Bull Temple Road, said to date to 1537, built around a monolithic granite Nandi about 15 ft tall and 20 ft long.
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🧭 Unique ExperiencesFreedom Park
A 21-acre public park on the site of the old Bangalore Central Jail, opened in 2008, where the barracks, watch tower and gallows area are kept alongside lawns and the city's main protest ground.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesCommercial Street
One of Bengaluru's oldest and busiest shopping streets, near MG Road and Russell Market, selling clothes, footwear, jewellery and more along the main road and its side lanes.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesChickpet
A dense old-city market quarter with roots in the 16th century, known for cloth shops, silk sarees and wholesale trade spread across a maze of lanes.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesRussell Market
A colonial-era market hall in Shivajinagar, built in 1927 and named after municipal commissioner T B Russell, with vegetable, fruit, meat and fish sections and busy wholesale and retail trade.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesVV Puram Food Street (Thindi Beedi)
A short, pedestrianised stretch near Sajjan Rao Circle lined with vegetarian street-food stalls, sweet shops and juice counters, revamped by the city corporation and busiest in the evenings.
☕ Independent CafésCTR (Shri Sagar), Malleshwaram
A vegetarian tiffin room in Malleshwaram dating to the 1920s, also called Shri Sagar, known above all for its butter-laden benne masala dosa.
☕ Independent CafésVeena Stores
A small stand-and-eat breakfast counter on Margosa Road, running since 1977, known for soft idlis, crisp vadas and its runny chutney.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesJohnson Market
A 1929 market complex in Richmond Town, built on land once used as horse stables; most trade now happens on its outer edge, with kebab, biryani and tea spots in the lanes around it.
📚 BookstoresAvenue Road
A crowded trading street through the old Pete, once called Doddapete, where phone, jewellery and textile traders share space with a long-running second-hand textbook trade.
🌿 Hidden SpotsDodda Ganapathi Temple
A Basavanagudi temple built around a monolithic Ganesha about 18 ft high and 16 ft wide, beside the Bull Temple with Bugle Rock garden behind. The idol is periodically covered in butter.
🌿 Hidden SpotsSri Dharmaraya Swamy Temple
An old Dravidian-style temple in the Pete dedicated to the Pandavas, Krishna and Draupadi. It is the ritual centre of the Bengaluru Karaga, whose night procession starts and ends here each spring.