Historical & Cultural Sites

Bangalore’s historical landscape spans from the 16th-century mud fortifications of Bangalore Fort to the 19th-century Tudor-style Bangalore Palace. The city's evolution is documented through the Indo-Islamic architecture of Tipu Sultan’s Summer Palace and specialized institutions like the HAL Aerospace Museum, India’s first of its kind. Cultural heritage is further preserved in the National Gallery of Modern Art, housed in the restored Manikyavelu Mansion, and the science-focused Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum.