Korigad Fort

Korigad, also called Koraigad, is a hill fort about 18 km south of Lonavala in Pune district, rising to some 923 metres, over 200 metres above the valleys around it. Its date is unknown. Shivaji added it to his kingdom in 1657 with Lohagad, Visapur, Tung and Tikona. In March 1818 Colonel Prother besieged it for days without success, until a cannonball set off the stored ammunition and the fort fell to the British. The Aamby Valley township now spreads over its southern and eastern foothills.

The walls are entirely intact, and visitors can walk the whole 2 km circuit. Inside are the renovated temple of Koraidevi, the fort's patron goddess with a 3-foot lamp tower, smaller temples to Vishnu and Shiva, ruins of older buildings, two lakes and six guns, the largest, the Laxmi Tof, near the Koraidevi temple. From Peth Shahpur village, on the Aamby Valley road, an earthen track leads to the steps for an easy climb, and the fort can be visited in any season.