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Photo: Photo by Suraj Digrase via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)Its name means Lion's Fort, after the 1670 battle in which Tanaji Malusare died recapturing it.
A hill fort near Pune that served as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's first capital before Raigad, captured in 1647 and held as a key Maratha stronghold for over two decades. Its intact double-walled fortifications, the Ballekilla (citadel) and expansive plateau made it one of the most formidable forts of the Maratha Empire. Sinhagad, meaning "Lion's Fort", was renamed after the 1670 Battle of Sinhagad in which Maratha general Tanaji Malusare died recapturing it. It remains one of the most-visited trekking forts near Pune.
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Built in 1892 as an act of charity during a famine, it later became a prison. Gandhi was held here during Quit India, and Kasturba Gandhi and Mahadev Desai died in custody. Their memorials stand in the garden.
Believed to be where the young Shivaji spent his childhood. What stands today is a 1980s reconstruction after fire destroyed the original.
Sambhaji, Shivaji's son, was born here, and here in 1665 Shivaji signed a treaty ceding forts to the Mughals.