Heritage places near Bengaluru
35 heritage places near Bengaluru, from Attara Kacheri (1 km) to Badami (450 km). Every place below has its own page with timings, fees, the best season to go and how to get there.
Distances are road kilometres from Bengaluru.
Pick a place, then join a group already heading there or start your own trip on Urban Break and find people to go with.
Seshadri Iyer Memorial Hall
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
A red Gothic building inside Cubbon Park that houses the State Central Library.
Attara Kacheri
1 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
A red brick and stone building in Cubbon Park, opposite the Vidhana Soudha, that houses the principal bench of the Karnataka High Court. Built in neoclassical style, it…
Bowring Institute
1 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
A private members' club in Bengaluru founded in 1868 by Benjamin Lewis Rice and named after Lewin Bentham Bowring. It is best known for its tennis facilities and its…
St. Andrew's Church
1 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
A Presbyterian church on Cubbon Road, Bengaluru, consecrated in 1866 and named after Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland. It was a Church of Scotland kirk until…
Vidhana Soudha
1 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
The granite seat of Karnataka's legislature and secretariat in central Bengaluru, built in Neo-Dravidian style and completed in 1956. It was conceived by Kengal…
Bangalore Fort
2 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
The remains of Bengaluru's old fort near K.R. Market, begun as a mud fort by Kempe Gowda I in 1537 and rebuilt in stone by Hyder Ali in 1761. The British captured it in…
East Parade Church
2 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
A church on M.G. Road in the old Bangalore Cantonment, consecrated in 1865 on the site of an earlier Wesleyan Mission Chapel. Its name comes from its position east of…
Kempegowda Museum
2 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
A government museum on the first floor of Mayo Hall in Bengaluru, dedicated to Kempegowda, the 16th-century founder of the city. A glass floor shows an 18th-century map…
Agaram Cemetery
3 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
An old Protestant cemetery in Bengaluru on Army Service Corps land, used from 1808 to about 1870. Two 40-foot Ionic columns commemorate officers of the 13th Light…
Bangalore Palace
3 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
A Tudor-style palace modelled on Windsor Castle, between Sadashivanagar and Jayamahal, with turreted parapets, battlements and towers, later acquired by the Maharajas…
Entry ₹240 per Indian adult
Holy Trinity Church
3 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
An Anglican church at Trinity Circle at the east end of M.G. Road, built in the early 1850s for the British regiment stationed in Bengaluru. In English Renaissance…
Peninsular Gneiss National Monument
3 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
An exposure of Peninsular Gneiss, the ancient metamorphic rock that underlies much of southern India, at Lal Bagh in Bengaluru. The Geological Survey of India declared…
Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace
3 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
A teak palace in Old Bengaluru near Kalasipalya, begun by Hyder Ali inside the walls of the Bangalore Fort and completed under Tipu Sultan in 1791. The ASI maintains…
Entry ₹20 per person
Chokkanatha Temple (Domlur)
5 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
One of the oldest temples in Bengaluru, at Domlur, dedicated to Chokkanathaswamy (Chokka Perumal). Its Kannada and Tamil inscriptions show it is at least as old as 1200…
HMT Heritage Center and Museum
15 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
A museum in the HMT estate at Jalahalli celebrating Hindustan Machine Tools, with over 1,500 HMT watch models on the ground floor and machine tools and tractors…
Entry ₹30 per adult
Begur Fort
20 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
A small circular fort in Begur, a suburb off the Bengaluru-Hosur highway, said to have been built by the Cholas near the old Panchalingeshwara temple complex. An…
Chikkajala Fort
25 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
A walled complex near Chikkajala village off the airport highway, about 25 km from Bengaluru, with stone pillars around a central pond and a small Hanuman temple. Its…
Devanahalli Fort
35 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Urban
Devanahalli Fort is located about 35 kilometers north of Bangalore city in Karnataka. Originally built as a mud fort in 1501, it was later reconstructed in stone in the…
Magadi Ranganatha Temple
50 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru South
A temple to Vishnu as Ranganatha in the historic town of Magadi, about 41 km from Bengaluru, first consecrated by a Chola ruler in the early 12th century. The deity…
Bhoga Nandeeshwara Temple
60 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Chikkaballapura
Bhoganandiswara Temple is part of a twin Hindu temple complex located in Nandi village in Chikkaballapur district, Karnataka. Dating back to the 9th-10th century CE,…
Ghati Subramanya Temple
60 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bengaluru Rural
Ghati Subramanya is a Hindu temple situated near Doddaballapura in Karnataka, about 60 km from Bangalore. It is a popular pilgrimage centre uniquely known for housing…
Avani Betta
90 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Kolar
Avani, a village in Mulbagal taluk of Kolar district about 15 km from Mulbagal, linked in tradition to the Ramayana. Its Ramalingeshwara group of temples dates to the…
Kotilingeshwara Temple
94 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Kolar
A Shiva temple in Kammasandra village, Kolar district, known for a 33-metre-tall linga and for its aim to install one crore (ten million) smaller lingas on the premises.
Entry ₹20 per person
Lepakshi Temple
120 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Sri Sathya Sai
The Veerabhadra Temple in Lepakshi is a renowned example of Vijayanagara-period temple architecture located in the Sri Sathya Sai district of Andhra Pradesh. It is…
Somanathapura Temple
140 km from Bengaluru
Heritage
The Chennakesava Temple, also referred to as Chennakeshava Temple and Keshava Temple, is a Vaishnava Hindu temple on the banks of River Kaveri at Somanathapura, Mysuru,…
Srirangapatna
140 km from Bengaluru
Heritage
Srirangapatna or Srirangapattana is a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian state of Karnataka. It gets its name from the…
Mysore Palace
150 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Mysuru
Amba Vilas Palace, the seat of the Wadiyar rulers of Mysuru, built between 1897 and 1912 for Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV to a design by Henry Irwin in…
Entry ₹100 per adult
Shravanabelagola
150 km from Bengaluru
Heritage
Shravanabelagola (pronunciation: [ɕɾɐ.ʋɐˈɳɐ bɛ.ɭɐ.go.ɭɐ]) is a town located near Channarayapatna taluk of Hassan district in the Indian state of Karnataka and is 144 km…
Chitradurga Fort
200 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Chitradurga
Chitradurga Fort is a massive stone fortress that straddles several hills in the Chitradurga district of Karnataka. It was built in stages between the 11th and 13th…
Halebidu
210 km from Bengaluru
Heritage
Halebidu (IAST: Haḷēbīḍu, literally "old capital, city, encampment" or "ruined city") is a Hobli located in Hassan District, Karnataka, India. Historically known as…
Belur
220 km from Bengaluru
Heritage
Belur may refer to:... It is an important historical and tourist place located in Karnataka known for its heritage.
Hampi
340 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Vijayanagara
The ruined capital of the Vijayanagara Empire on the Tungabhadra river, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986. It was the capital from 1336 until 1565, and its…
Best season: November to February
Aihole
440 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bagalkot
A village in Bagalkot district with over 120 stone and cave temples from the 6th to 12th centuries along the Malaprabha valley, often called the birthplace of Indian…
Best season: October to March
Pattadakal
440 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bagalkot
A UNESCO World Heritage complex of 7th and 8th century Hindu and Jain temples on the west bank of the Malaprabha in Bagalkot district, 23 km from Badami and about 10 km…
Badami
450 km from Bengaluru
Heritage · Bagalkot
A town in Bagalkot district known for four rock-cut cave temples of the late 6th century, cut into a sandstone hill above Agastya lake. Badami was the capital of the…
Best season: October to February · Entry ₹40 per person
Want company on the way?
See upcoming group trips to these places, or start one and find people to go with. It is free.
Browse group trips