About Gulbarga Tourism

The town of Gulbarga is situated in the north-eastern part of Karnataka, in southern India. It is a foremost district as well as the fourth biggest city of Karnataka. It lies 214 km from the town of Hyderabad and 663 km from Bangalore. The district lies in the Deccan Plateau and was formerly a part of Hyderabad, but most of its locality became the part of the Mysore state, in 1956.

The wealthy cultural backdrop of the city is depicted from the university present in Nagai in Chitapur, Vignaneeshwara’s Mitakshara and Nrupatunga’s Kavirajamarga as well as from the social and devout revolutions led by the Shivsharanas and the Sufi Saint Banda Nawaz.

Gulbarga is also known for the well known bard and philosopher Purandara Dasa of the Vijayanagara Empire and the well known Saint Shri Sharanabasaveshwara, in the 19th century. It is also the base centre of Carnatic melodies. The locality furthermore came into report in 2009, when a rare sculptural portrait of ‘Ashoka the large’ was found here, during an excavation.

The Bhamani outpost here is one of the most well liked tourist enticements of the location. King Gulchand, who was a feudatory of the Orangal Kakatiyas, initially built the Fort. However, it was rebuilt by Allah-ud-din Bahmani, who furthermore introduced 15 new towers to its initial structure.

The outpost covers an locality of 38,000 rectangle feet and is built as per Spanish architecture. Along with this outpost, the Khandar Khan’s Mosque and the Hirapur Mosque constructed in 1585, by Chandbibi, are some other enticements of Gulbarga.