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The Grand Ashok hotel now called the Lalit Ashok is a property of Intercontinental located in the heart of the Bangalore city. The gentle, graceful ambience of Bangalore, India's garden city, is amply reflected in its first 5 star hotel - Hotel The Lalit Ashok. Located on ten spacious acres in ... |
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The Bangalore Palace was built by Chamaraja Wodeyar, Maharaja of Mysore in 1887. The Palace flaunts turreted parapets, battlements, fortified towers and arches. Spread over an area of about 430 acres, the Palace is famous for its elegantly carved woodwork. It is right in the heart of the city. With ... |
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The Vidhana Soudha, located in Bangalore, is the seat of the state legislature of Karnataka. It is an imposing building, constructed in a style sometimes described as 'Neo-Dravidian' and incorporates elements of Indo-Saracenic, Rajasthani Jharokha and Dravidian styles. It was built in the ... |
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The high court is located in a building called as Attara Kacheri (meaning Eighteen offices). It is a two-storied building, red in colour and has been built in the neoclassical style. It was earlier named as Old Public Offices and got its name of Attara Kacheri when the eighteen departments in the ge... |
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About 40 km from Bangalore, Ramanagara hills have been the earliest rock climbing locations in South India. Climbers have been undertaking technical climbing since 1960s onwards. Ramanagara is also famous for the huge rocky outcrops. Those that are popular for rock climbing are; Ramadevarabetta, SRS... |
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This 300 acres of sheer beauty was an outcome of a British Chief Engineer of Mysore, Sir Richard Shanky in 1864. The park has been named after Sir Mark Cubbon who was Bangalore's longest serving commissioner. Beautiful roads, blooming trees and placid plains are spread all around. Cubbon Park i... |
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Seshadri Iyer Memorial Hall, built in 1915 AD in a classic European style with Tuscan and Carinthian columns, in honour of Sir K.Seshadri Iyer who was the Dewan of Mysore State from 1883 to 1901, is an impressive red building with gables. It houses the Seshadri Memorial Library. The memorial buildin... |
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The ITC Windsor, earlier called Windsor Manor, is a 5-star hotel that merges an old world ambience with international service to create a hotel experience that goes beyond expectation. The hotel is located in a splendid downtown location near the prominent business and commercial areas, the histor... |
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The Big Banyan Tree is located at Ramohalli about 28 kilometres from Bangalore. This serene picnic spot has a sprawling 400-year-old Banyan Tree, which spreads over an area of 4 acres! It is called 'Dodda Alada Mara' in Kannada meaning Big Banyan Tree. The tree with its vertical root syste... |
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The Government of India established the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), one of the illustrious among B-Schools in 1973 as an autonomous body. IIMB was founded and directed by Prof. N. S. Ramaswamy, who was later awarded Padmabhushan. All the students are provided accommodation at... |
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Nandi Hills or Nandidurg is a hill fortress in the Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka. Nandidurg hill, known commonly as Nandi Hills, gets its name from an ancient Nandi temple situated on this hill. This temple has a thousand year old sculpture of Nandi. During the Chola period, Nandi Hills was c... |
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Chowdiah Memorial Hall is one of Bangalore's most imaginative architectural monuments. A random thought led to the construction of the magnificent Chowdiah Memorial Hall, a tribute to Tirumakudalu Chowdiah, one of the greatest violinists of Karnataka. It is administered by Academy of Music, an... |
