Showing posts with label South Bangalore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Bangalore. Show all posts

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace, 1791


















With a museum inside, on the ground floor. Lovely Islamic architecture, gardens. Great place for photography, the light upstairs is lovely, since it is open on all sides.There is a beautiful temple also right next to it, you can club both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu_Sultan's_Summer_Palace

This is in South Bangalore, you can club it with visits to Bull Temple, Gandhi Bazaar, Lal Bagh Botanical Gardens.

Tipu Sultan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu_Sultan

Tipu Sultan (20 November 1750  – 4 May 1799), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, Dipu Sultan and Tipu Sahib, was a ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, scholar and poet, recognized as one of the greatest South Asian rulers of all time.

..Tipu expanded the iron-cased Mysorean rockets and wrote the military manual Fathul Mujahidin, considered a pioneer in the use of rocket artillery. He deployed the rockets against advances of British forces and their allies in their 1792 and 1799 Siege of Srirangapatna.

...Napoleon, the French commander-in-chief who later became emperor, sought an alliance with Tipu. In alliance with the French in their struggle with the British, and in Mysore's struggles with other surrounding powers, both Tipu and his father used their French trained army against the Marathas, Sira, and rulers of Malabar, Kodagu, Bednore, Carnatic, and Travancore.

Gandhi Bazaar, Basavanagudi




















Lovely open-air vegetable, fruit, and spice market, in South Bangalore. Very close to the Bull Temple.

http://indianbazaars.blogspot.in/2010/04/bazaar-tour-gandhi-bazaar-bangalore.html

Bull Temple, Basavanagudi




















Beautiful old 16th century temple, with an ancient grove right behind, with bats hanging from the trees. The city was originally founded in this area.

“The temple was built in 1537 by Kempe Gowda under the Vijayanagara empire in the Vijayanagara architectural style, he also founded the city of Bangalore.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodda_Ganeshana_Gudi

Location: South Bangalore. You can combine a  visit to Gandhi Bazaar, an open air market, very close to this place.

Photo from the Net.