Visapur Fort

Visapur Fort stands near Visapur village in Pune district, a few kilometres from Malavli station, on the same plateau as Lohagad. Balaji Vishwanath, the first Peshwa, built it between 1713 and 1720, long after Lohagad, but it is the larger and higher of the two at 1,084 metres. In March 1818 British troops took Visapur and used its height to shell Lohagad into surrender; afterwards they blew up its north and south gates and left little standing inside.

The walls survive far better than the buildings, and walking their full length takes about two hours. They are high and towered on the west side, thinning to a dry-stone parapet where the plateau ends in a cliff, and two big bastions still flank the ruined central gate. Inside are caves, water cisterns, a decorated arch, the ruins of a stone house called the Peshwa's palace, a large carving of Hanuman, several Hanuman temples and a well that legend credits to the Pandavas.