Lakkundi

Lakkundi is a village to the southeast of Gadag that was an important town more than a thousand years ago, when it went by the name Lokki Gundi. It is now an open-air record of the region's past, with over 50 old temples, a reputed 101 stepwells and many inscriptions left by the Chalukyas, Kalachuris, Seunas and Hoysalas.

The best known building is the Kasi Vishwanatha Temple, whose densely carved surfaces show the Kalyani Chalukya style that links the early Chalukya work of Badami with that of the Hoysalas. Lakkundi was also a Jain centre, and one of its largest and oldest temples is Jain. The stepwells, or kalyanis, have small canopied niches holding lingas. A sculpture gallery run by the Archaeological Survey of India displays carvings gathered from the village.