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Bangalore Palace
A Tudor Revival palace modelled on Windsor Castle, built from the 1870s and later owned by the Mysore Wadiyars; part of it is open for ticketed visits.
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🧭 Unique ExperiencesDodda 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.
🌿 Hidden SpotsBugle Rock Park
A shady 16-acre park around an ancient gneiss outcrop behind the Bull Temple, with an old watchtower, walking paths, an amphitheatre and a fruit-bat colony.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesRagigudda Sri Prasanna Anjaneyaswamy Temple
A Hanuman temple on a rocky knoll in Jayanagar 9th Block, built in 1969, with shrines to Rama, Sita and Lakshmana, a Shiva linga, a temple tank and an amphitheatre.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesISKCON Bangalore (Sri Radha Krishna Temple)
A large hilltop Krishna temple complex on Chord Road, opened in 1997, with a gold-plated flagpost and shikhara and six shrines; visitors get free prasadam.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesHAL Heritage Centre and Aerospace Museum
India's first aerospace museum, set up by Hindustan Aeronautics in 2001, with aircraft and helicopters on display, simulators and a history of Indian aviation. Upgraded with new interactive exhibits in April 2026.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesJawaharlal Nehru Planetarium
A planetarium run by the Bangalore Association for Science Education since 1989, with a dome sky theatre, an outdoor science park and regular astronomy talks and stargazing evenings.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesBannerghatta Biological Park
A park about 25 km from central Bengaluru with a zoo, bus and jeep safaris, a rescue centre and India's first enclosed butterfly park, managed by the Zoo Authority of Karnataka.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesAgara Lake
A large lake beside HSR Layout, part of the chain that flows from Madiwala to Bellandur, with a walking track around its edge and a park at the north end.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesMadiwala Lake
One of Bengaluru's largest lakes, in BTM Layout and looked after by the Forest Department; spot-billed pelicans gather here in numbers around November-December.
☕ Independent CafésMavalli Tiffin Rooms (MTR), Lalbagh Road
The flagship of a vegetarian restaurant that began in 1924 and has run from its Art Deco building on Lalbagh Road since 1959. It is widely credited with inventing the rava idli.
☕ 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.