Bangalore Fort

Bangalore Fort began in 1537 as a mud fort built by Kempe Gowda I, a Vijayanagara chieftain regarded as the founder of Bangalore, who laid out his town of Bengaluru Pete around it. Legend says the southern gate kept collapsing until his daughter-in-law Lakshamma sacrificed herself there, and a temple in Koramangala was built in her memory. The fort was enlarged under Chikkadeva Raya Wodeyar, and in 1761 Hyder Ali rebuilt it in stone; his son Tipu Sultan improved it further.

On 21 March 1791, during the Third Mysore War, the East India Company army under Lord Cornwallis breached its walls near the Delhi Gate and took it after hard fighting. Today two bastions and the Delhi Gate, on Krishnarajendra Road, are the main surviving parts, and a marble plaque marks the place of the breach. A Ganapathy temple stands inside, and Tipu Sultan's armoury and Summer Palace lie within the old fort area.