Bengalooru, the Garden City, was founded by Kempe Gowda around 16th century, 1537 AD to be precise. Bengalooru is home to many Military and Civilian Research Centres, reknowned Educational Institutes, World Class Industires, IT & BT parks. It is justifiably called Silicon Valley of Asia.
Bengalooru is popularly known as many things. Some of the very popular names are as follows;
- Garden City
- Silicon Valley of Asia
- Pensioner's Paradise
- Cosmopolitan City
- The Pub City
Many rulers like Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali ruled this beautiful city during some parts of history. The Bengalooru city was once a British colonial contonment.
In addition to hi-tech industries, the city is well-known for its Silk, Sandalwood and Handicrafts.
Welcome to Bengalooru city !.
Bengalooru's famous tourist places are:
- Vidhana soudha
- Ulsoor Lake
- Lalbagh
- Cubbon Park
- Tipu's Fort
- Bengalooru Palace
- Government Musuem
- Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technologiical Musuem
- Chowdiah Memorial Hall
- Seshadri Memorial Hall
- Ravindra Kalakshetra
- Ranga Shankara
- Nehru Planetarium
- Venkatappa Art Gallery
- Shiva statue on Airport Road
- Bull Temple
- Gavi Gangadhareshwara
- Dodda Ganapathi Temple
- ISKCON
- Jumma Masjid
- St Marks Cathedral
About Bengalooru:
Area: 368 Sq. Kms
Population: 5.5 million
Altitute: 3000 ft above sea level
Climate: Salubrious & Warm
Warmest Months: March - May with Avg, temperatures around 33 deg. celcius
Coolest Months: December - Jan with Avg. temperatures around 23 degree.
Language: Kannada is the state language.
other languages like Hindi, English, Urdu, Telugu & Tamil are spoken too.
Bengalooru Airport - BLR
