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Bangalore Palace
For an insight into the homelife of the Wodeyars (the current raja still lives here), take a peek inside Bengaluru Palace. An aged retainer will guide you around the palace, which was designed to resemble Windsor Castle. Alongside many family photos, the sometimes lavish interiors are hung with a collection of nude portraits, adding a saucy note to the tour. The guards get touchy about photos being taken of the exterior.
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Bull Temple & Dodda Ganesha Temple
Built by Kempegowda in the Dravidian style of the 16th century, the Bull Temple contains a huge granite monolith of Nandi and is one of Bengaluru's liveliest and most atmospheric. Nearby is the Dodda Ganesha Temple, with an equally enormous Ganesh idol.
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Cubbon Park
Named after the former British commissioner Sir Mark Cubbon, the 120-hectare Cubbon Park is where the city breathes. Inside and on its fringes you'll find the red-painted Gothic-style State Central Library, two municipal museums, an art gallery and a bleak Government Aquarium.
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Government Museum & Venkatappa Art Gallery
The Government Museum houses a drably presented collection of stone carvings and relics, as well as some good pieces from Halebid. Your ticket is also valid for the attached Venkatappa Art Gallery, home to the surreal watercolour landscapes of Sri K Venkatappa (1887-1962), court painter to the Wodeyars
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Iskcon Temple
Built by the wealthy International Society of Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon), better known as the Hare Krishnas, the shiny Iskcon Temple is lavishly decorated in a mix of ultracontemporary and traditional styles. The Sri Radha Krishna Mandir blends souvenir selling with a stunning shrine to Krishna and Radha.
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Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat
The Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat visual-arts gallery is Bengaluru's best. You'll see a wide range of Indian and international contemporary art, as well as the lavish gold-leaf work of Mysore-style paintings, and folk and tribal art from across the continent. There are also galleries devoted to Russian master Nicholas Roerich, whose vividly colourful paintings of the Himalayas are outstanding, and his son Svetoslav, who settled in India.
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Krishnarajendra Market Area
For a pungent taste of traditional urban India, dive into this bustling wholesale fresh-produce Krishnarajendra Market and the dense grid of commercial streets that surround it. This is the main Muslim area of the city and you'll also find here several mosques, including the impressively massive lilac-painted Jama Masjid.
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Lalbagh Botanical Gardens
This delightful park, was laid out in the 18th century by Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan and named for its profusion of red roses: lalbagh means 'red garden'. The park contains many ancient trees, one of India's largest collections of rare tropical and subtropical plants, a glasshouse modelled on London's Crystal Palace and one of Kempegowda's watchtowers.
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Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technical Museum
The mechanically minded will find plenty of interest at the quirky Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technical Museum, which includes all manner of electrical and engineering displays, from a replica of the Wright brothers' 1903 flyer to 21st-century virtual-reality games.
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