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   Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore

   A botanical garden laid out by Hyder Ali in the 1760s and finished by Tipu Sultan, covering nearly a hundred hectares in the middle of Bengaluru. Its glass house of 1889 copies the Crystal Palace and holds flower shows twice a year.

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   Bannerghatta National Park

   A national park twenty-two kilometres south of the city, declared in 1974, where a bus runs through separate lion, tiger and bear enclosures. There is a butterfly park at the entrance. The elephant corridor through it is being squeezed by the city's growth, which the park makes no secret of.

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   Bengaluru Palace

   Built in 1874 for the Maharaja of Mysore in Tudor Revival, with turrets, battlements and a fortified porch loosely modelled on Windsor. The family still owns it; the grounds are hired out for concerts, which is how most people in the city have seen it.

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   Cubbon Park

   A park of some forty hectares laid out in 1870 in the middle of Bengaluru, and the reason the city was called the garden city long before the software. The red-brick high court and the state museum stand inside it.

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   Dharmaraya Swamy Temple

   One of the oldest temples in Bengaluru, and the starting point of the Karaga festival — an all-night procession in which a male dancer, dressed as the goddess, carries a pot of fire through the old city.

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   Nageshvara Temple

   A temple complex at Begur south of the city, founded under the Western Gangas in the ninth century. An Old Kannada inscription in its wall carries the earliest known appearance of the name Bengaluru — six hundred years before Kempe Gowda founded the city.

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   St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Bengaluru

   The Catholic cathedral of Bengaluru and the seat of the archdiocese, which was carved out of the older Mysore diocese in 1940 as the city grew.

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   Dodda Ganeshana Gudi

   A sixteenth-century temple in Basavanagudi whose Nandi bull, four and a half metres high, is carved from a single boulder that was already on the hill. A groundnut fair fills the surrounding streets for two days each November or December, a market older than the temple.

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   Bengaluru Fort

   Kempe Gowda threw up a mud fort here in 1537 and founded the city around it; Hyder Ali rebuilt it in stone. The British stormed the walls in 1791 and Tipu Sultan lost it. Only the Delhi Gate and a stretch of rampart survive, hemmed in by a hospital and a market.

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    Halasuru Someshwara Temple, Bangalore

    A Shiva temple at Halasuru whose earliest fabric goes back to Chola times, much enlarged under the Vijayanagara chiefs who founded modern Bengaluru. Its pillared hall and gate tower are among the best pre-colonial work in the city.

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   Dakshinamukha Nandi Tirtha Kalyani Temple

   A small temple at Malleswaram where water runs from the mouth of a stone Nandi onto the linga below it, from a source nobody has traced. It was buried under housing and rediscovered when the site was cleared in the 1990s.

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   Whitefield

   Founded in 1882 on 4,000 acres granted by the Maharaja of Mysore as a settlement for Bangalore's Anglo-Indians, and named for D. E. S. White of the association that received the land. It stayed a quiet village until the IT boom of the late 1990s turned it into the city's first tech corridor.

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   Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace

   The teak summer residence of Tipu Sultan inside the old Bangalore fort, finished in 1791. Its columned verandas and painted ceilings survive; the British used it as offices after his defeat.

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   The RVM Foundation Shiv Temple

   A temple on Old Airport Road built in 1995, with a Shiva figure some twenty metres high seated at the front. It draws around half a million visitors a year and is at its busiest on Mahashivaratri.

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   Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple

   A Shiva temple cut into a rock outcrop, entered through a cave. On Makara Sankranti each January the setting sun passes between the horns of the stone Nandi outside and lights the lingam in the inner chamber — the alignment draws a crowd every year.

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   Ragigudda Sri Prasannaswamy Anjaneya Temple

   A Hanuman temple on a rocky hillock in Jayanagar, spread over two hectares, with shrines to Shiva and to Rama's family alongside. Steps and a lift both climb to it and Saturdays are impossible.

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   St. Mary's Basilica, Bangalore

   The oldest church in Bengaluru and the first in Karnataka raised to the rank of basilica, in 1973. Its September feast of the Virgin fills the surrounding streets with a procession and a fair.

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   Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum

   A museum of four thousand square metres in Cubbon Park in Bengaluru in India. It was founded in honour of the engineer M. Visvesvaraya and opened by Prime Minister Nehru on 14 July 1962, and displays industrial products, scientific models and engines.

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   Sri Gangamma Devi Temple

   A Hindu temple at Malleswaram in Bengaluru in India, near the Kadu Malleshwara temple. It is dedicated to Ganga, the goddess held to have come to earth as the river Ganges.

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    Masjid-e-Bilal

    A mosque in the Turkish style on Bannerghatta Road in Bengaluru in Karnataka. It was consecrated on 11 June 2015 and is among the largest in the region.

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