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Bangalore, India
6 places worth your time in Bangalore, with what each is actually like and when to go.
240 acres laid out by Hyder Ali in the 1760s, with a glasshouse modelled on Crystal Palace and a 3,000-million-year-old rock outcrop.
A Tudor-revival pile built by a Wodeyar maharaja after visiting Windsor, complete with turrets and fortified towers.
300 acres of civic green in the centre, closed to traffic at weekends and the city's default place to walk.
A two-storey teak palace from 1791, all carved pillars and painted ceilings, in what is now a dense market district.
A 4.5-metre monolithic Nandi bull from the 16th century, in an old quarter that predates the tech city entirely.
An hour out, a hill fort with a sunrise view above the cloud line — the standard weekend escape.
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