Saturday, December 18, 2010

Bangalore-Tipu Sultan’s & Maharajah’s Bangalore Palace in Karnataka

Bengaluru ( Bangalore ): Beautiful Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka is one of the prettiest and cleanest cities of India. It is popularly called as the ‘Garden City’ and had earned several other epitaphs like an ‘Air-conditioned City’, for its salubrious climate throughout the year; the ‘Silicon Valley’ of India, for its rapidly growing software market and the ‘City of Draught Beer’ etc.

Tipu Sultan’s Palace : The construction of the palace was started by Haider Ali and completed by his son, Tipu Sultan in 1791. The wooden building resembling the Daria Daulat Bagh at Srirangapatnam and houses a museum.







Maharajah’s Bangalore Palace : The magnificent granite palace built in 1887, by the Wodeyar’s of Mysore resembles the famous Windsor Castle in England.

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