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Photo: Photo by RanajoyGoswami via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Tipu Sultan's teakwood retreat, its pillars painted with flowers that blend Hindu and Islamic traditions.
A modest colonial-era garden house built around 1791, used by Tipu Sultan, the "Tiger of Mysore," as a retreat away from his main fortress. Its teakwood pillars are painted with intricate floral motifs in a distinctive Indo-Islamic style, blending Hindu and Islamic decorative traditions. The palace stands within the grounds of the older Bangalore Fort, built originally by Kempe Gowda and later strengthened by Hyder Ali. It is maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India as a protected monument.
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It began as a mud fort in 1537. After the British breached it in 1791, only a gate and a small Ganesha shrine were left.
A Windsor Castle look-alike in the heart of Bengaluru, still privately owned by the Wadiyar royal family.
Laid out in 1870, Bengaluru's green lung is shaded by century-old rain trees.