Landmarks & Sights
Palaces, gardens, temples, museums and the city's best-known buildings.
Lalbagh Botanical Garden
240 acres of gardens, a glass house and a 3,000-million-year-old rock.
Cubbon Park
The green heart of the city centre, with the Central Library and the High Court.
Vidhana Soudha
The granite seat of Karnataka's legislature.
Bangalore Palace
A Tudor-style royal residence inspired by Windsor Castle.
Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace
A teak palace completed in 1791, next to the old fort.
Bull Temple & Dodda Ganapathi
A monolithic Nandi in Basavanagudi, next to Bugle Rock park.
ISKCON Temple, Rajajinagar
A large hilltop Krishna temple complex.
Gavi Gangadhareshwara Cave Temple
A rock-cut cave temple where sunlight lights up the linga on Makara Sankranti.
St Mary's Basilica
A Gothic church in Shivajinagar.
Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum
A hands-on science museum on Kasturba Road.
National Gallery of Modern Art
Indian modern art in a heritage mansion on Palace Road.
Bannerghatta National Park
A zoo, safari and butterfly park on the southern edge of the city.
Ulsoor (Halasuru) Lake
A central lake with islands, near MG Road.
Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium
Sky shows and a science park near Raj Bhavan.