Bangalore Fort

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Le château en bref

Bangalore Fort is the historic core of the capital of Karnataka. What remains today is limited to a fragment of its stone enclosure, in the K.R. Market area, near Victoria Hospital: the so-called Delhi Gate, flanked by bastions, and a short stretch of curtain wall. The gate retains heavy wooden leaves studded with metal spikes, intended to stop war elephants, and a plaque marks the spot where British troops breached the walls in 1791. Within the enclosure stands a small temple to Ganesha, whose decoration features the gandaberunda, emblem of the Wodeyars. Founded in earth by Kempe Gowda in the sixteenth century, rebuilt in stone under Hyder Ali and then largely dismantled in the nineteenth century, the fort is listed among the monuments protected by the Archaeological Survey of India. Part of it, including the former dungeons, is not open to the public.