Hampi, Karnataka
Monuments of Hampi
75 places — temples, ruins, hills and bazaars — with their history, opening hours, entry fees and where they are.
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TempleAchyutaraya Temple
One of the last grand temples of Vijayanagara, set in a natural amphitheatre between two hills.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleAnantasayana Temple
A huge vaulted Vishnu temple near Hospet, built to house a giant reclining image of Ananthasayana.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentAnegundi Fort
The ramparts and gateways of Anegundi, the fortified older capital across the river from Hampi.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
ViewpointAnegundi Panorama
A rock shelf above Anegundi with the whole river valley in front of it and, most evenings, nobody else on it.
6:00 am – 6:30 pm · Free entry
VillageAnegundi Village
The older settlement across the river, lived in rather than excavated — painted houses, working temples, and the country called Kishkindha.
6:00 am – 7:00 pm · Free entry
HillAnjanadri Hill
The hill in Anegundi revered as Hanuman's birthplace, reached by about 575 steps to a white hilltop temple.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleBadavilinga
Hampi's tallest Shiva linga — a 3 m monolith standing in a chamber perpetually filled with water.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentBhima's Gate
A massive fortified gateway with a right-angled 'bent entrance', named after the Pandava hero Bhima.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
RuinsBukka's Aqueduct
A massive stone aqueduct that once lifted Tungabhadra water to the hill suburbs north of the river.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentChakra Tirtha and Koti Tirtha
Sacred Tungabhadra bathing ghats where the river narrows and swirls, with nearby Kotilinga linga fields carved into the bedrock.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleChandikeshwara Temple
A compact riverside temple opposite the Uddana Veerabhadra Temple, with a pillared hall and open courtyard.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleChandrasekhara Temple
A quiet Shiva temple with a long pillared hall, standing alone between the royal centre and Kamalapura.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
RuinsCourtesans' Street
A long colonnaded market avenue — also called Sule Bazaar or Achyutaraya Bazaar — leading west to the Achyutaraya Temple.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentDanaik's Enclosure Mosque
A rare Vijayanagara-era mosque and 'band tower' inside a nobleman's compound in the royal centre.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentDomed Gateway
A tall Indo-Islamic arched gateway east of the royal centre, once a guarded entrance to the citadel.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentDouble-Storeyed Mantapa
A two-level granite gateway on the Tungabhadra river route southwest of the Vittala Temple.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
PalaceElephant Stables
A grand row of eleven domed chambers that once housed the royal war elephants.
8:00 am – 6:00 pm · ₹40 for Indians · ₹600 for foreign visitors
PalaceGagan Mahal, Anegundi
The old royal palace-cum-gateway at the heart of Anegundi village, blending Hindu and Islamic forms.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleGanigitti Jain Temple
A stern, stepped-pyramid Jain temple of 1385 CE beside a tall monolithic lamp-pillar, near Bhima's Gate.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentGejjala Mantapa
A small pillared pavilion on the Vittala chariot street, likely used to display festival images of the gods.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
PalaceGuard's Quarters near Elephant Stables
An Indo-Islamic arched gallery beside the Elephant Stables, now a small archaeological museum.
8:00 am – 6:00 pm · ₹40 for Indians · ₹600 for foreign visitors
MuseumGuards' Quarters Archaeological Gallery
A small ASI sculpture gallery in the arcaded Guards' Quarters beside Hampi's Elephant Stables.
10:00 am – 5:00 pm · ₹40 for Indians · ₹600 for foreign visitors
- Lake
Halli Kere
A village tank east of Kamalapura that appears on no itinerary at all.
6:00 am – 6:30 pm · Free entry
MuseumHampi Archaeological Museum, Kamalapura
The ASI museum of Hampi's excavated sculptures, inscriptions, coins and two detailed models of the Vijayanagara capital.
10:00 am – 5:00 pm · ₹5 entry
RuinsHampi Bazaar
A kilometre-long Vijayanagara market street lined with stone pavilions, running east from Virupaksha Temple to the monolithic Nandi.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MuseumHampi Bazaar Heritage Photo Gallery
A free photo museum beside the monolithic Nandi, comparing Hampi's ruins through rare historic and modern photographs.
10:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleHastagiri Ranganatha Temple
A modest sixteenth-century Vishnu temple built against a rocky hill above Hampi's Tungabhadra riverside trail.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleHazara Rama Temple
The royal chapel, famous for hundreds of relief panels narrating the Ramayana.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
HillHemakuta Hill
A low hill just south of Virupaksha, dotted with pre-Vijayanagara temples and famous for sunsets.
6:00 am – 6:30 pm · Free entry
TempleKadalekalu Ganesha
A nearly 4.5 m Ganesha carved in situ on Hemakuta Hill, named for his 'Bengal-gram' shaped belly.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
- Lake
Kamalapura Lake
The big tank on the edge of Kamalapura, where the herons stand at dawn and the museum crowd never comes.
5:30 am – 6:30 pm · Free entry
MonumentKing's Balance
A 5 m stone balance near the Vittala Temple where kings were weighed against gold given away as charity.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleKodandarama Temple
A riverside temple at Chakratirtha where Rama is said to have crowned Sugriva, still in daily worship.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
RuinsKrishna Bazaar
A colonnaded market street and stepped tank east of the Krishna Temple, built to serve pilgrims and traders in Krishnadevaraya's time.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleKrishna Temple
A 1513 CE temple built by Krishnadevaraya to mark his victory at Udayagiri, fronted by the ruined Krishna Bazaar.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentKuduregombe Mantapa
A chariot-road pavilion whose front pillars are carved with rearing horses and riders.
8:00 am – 6:00 pm · ₹40 for Indians · ₹600 for foreign visitors
MonumentLakshmi Narasimha
Hampi's largest monolith — a 6.7 m Ugra Narasimha carved from a single boulder beneath a seven-hooded serpent.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
RuinsLarge Public Bath
A large open bathing tank near the royal centre, once fed by Vijayanagara's stone aqueducts.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
PalaceLotus Mahal
An elegant two-storey pavilion in the Zenana Enclosure blending Hindu and Islamic architecture.
8:00 am – 6:00 pm · ₹40 for Indians · ₹600 for foreign visitors
RuinsMahanavami Dibba
A 12 m granite ceremonial platform in the Royal Enclosure, carved with processions of elephants, horses and dancers.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleMalyavanta Raghunatha Temple
A hilltop Rama temple built around a giant boulder, linked in legend to the Ramayana.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
LakeManmatha Tank
The stepped tank behind Virupaksha that most people walk past on their way to somewhere louder.
5:30 am – 6:30 pm · Free entry
HillMatanga Hill
The highest point in Hampi and its most famous sunrise and sunset viewpoint.
5:30 am – 6:30 pm · Free entry
MonumentMohammedan Watch Tower
Hampi's largest surviving watchtower, guarding the northwest corner of the Danaik's Enclosure.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentMonolithic Bull (Nandi)
A giant monolithic Nandi in a twin-storeyed pavilion, marking the east end of Hampi Bazaar.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
GardenMunirabad Park
The town park at Munirabad — lawns, old trees and the local evening, five minutes from Pampavana.
6:00 am – 8:00 pm · Free entry
PalaceOctagonal Bath
An eight-sided royal bathing pavilion ringed by pillars, on the eastern edge of the royal centre.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentPampa Sarovar
A sacred lotus-filled lake in Anegundi, linked to the goddess Pampa and to Shabari's wait for Rama.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
- Garden
Pampavana Garden
The Japanese-style garden at Munirabad — clipped, watered and deliberately unlike everything around it.
9:00 am – 6:30 pm · ₹10 entry
TemplePattabhirama Temple
One of Hampi's largest temple complexes, near Kamalapura, dedicated to Rama and enclosed by high walls.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentPurandara Dasa Mantapa
An open riverside pavilion west of the Vittala Temple, named for the saint-composer Purandara Dasa.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
PalaceQueen's Bath
A plain-walled pavilion hiding an ornate indoor bathing pool ringed by arched balconies.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
RuinsRoyal Enclosure
The walled royal centre of Vijayanagara, holding the Mahanavami Dibba, stepped tank, palace basements and ceremonial platforms.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentRuined Gateway with Lofty Pillars
A collapsed chariot-street gateway marked by a long row of tall monolithic pillars west of the Vittala Temple.
8:00 am – 6:00 pm · ₹40 for Indians · ₹600 for foreign visitors
LakeSanapur Lake
A reservoir held between boulders north of the river, where the water is green, the palms lean in, and almost nobody comes before evening.
6:00 am – 6:30 pm · Free entry
TempleSaraswati Temple
A small, weathered shrine to Saraswati, goddess of learning, perched on a rocky mound in the royal centre.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleSasivekalu Ganesha
A 2.4-metre monolithic Ganesha carved from a single boulder, named after a mustard seed.
6:00 am – 6:30 pm · Free entry
TempleShri Bhashyakara Gudi
A Vaishnava temple in Vitthalapura dedicated to the philosopher Ramanuja, northeast of the Vittala Temple.
8:00 am – 6:00 pm · ₹40 for Indians · ₹600 for foreign visitors
- Lake
Sita Sarovara
A small tank on the Anegundi side, tied by name to Sita and passed by almost everyone.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
RuinsStepped Tank
A perfectly symmetrical five-tier tank of black schist, unearthed in the Royal Enclosure in the 1980s.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentStone Chariot
Hampi's iconic stone shrine shaped like a temple chariot, standing in the Vittala Temple courtyard.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · ₹40 for Indians · ₹600 for foreign visitors
MonumentStone Doors
A fallen pair of monumental granite door leaves carved to imitate ornate wooden gates in Hampi's Royal Enclosure.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentSugriva's Cave
A natural boulder cave on the Tungabhadra shore where tradition says the monkey-king Sugriva hid Sita's jewels and met Rama.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
MonumentTalarigatta Gate
A fortified riverside gateway on the road to the Talarigatta coracle crossing, once a toll gate into Vijayanagara.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
WaterfallThe Swimming Spot below Sanapur
Where the canal drops between rocks below the Sanapur sluice — a pool in the monsoon, bare stone by March.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
ViewpointThe Tunnel Road & Windmill Ridge
Where the highway goes through the hill instead of over it, with wind turbines along the ridge above.
6:00 am – 7:00 pm · Free entry
DamTungabhadra Dam
Pampa Sagar: a two-kilometre wall holding back the river, with gardens below it and a musical fountain after dark.
8:00 am – 7:30 pm · ₹20 entry
TempleUddana Veerabhadra Temple
A temple on the Hampi bazaar road housing a towering image of the fierce warrior-god Veerabhadra.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleUnderground Shiva Temple
One of Hampi's oldest shrines, the Prasanna Virupaksha Temple, built well below ground so its sanctum often stands in water.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleVaraha Temple
A riverside temple at the north end of Courtesans' Street, marked by boar (Varaha) reliefs and a broken tower.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleVirupaksha Temple
Hampi's oldest and only continuously worshipped temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva as Virupaksha.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · ₹50 entry
RuinsVittala Bazaar
The colonnaded Pan Supari Bazaar — betel-and-areca market — on Kampa Bhupa's Path leading to the Vittala Temple.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
TempleVittala Temple
15th-century temple famed for its stone chariot and 56 musical pillars.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · ₹40 for Indians · ₹600 for foreign visitors
TempleYantrodharaka Hanuman Temple
A fifteenth-century riverside shrine where Hanuman is depicted meditating within a six-pointed yantra.
6:00 am – 6:00 pm · Free entry
PalaceZenana Enclosure
The walled 'ladies' enclosure' of the royal court, guarded by watchtowers and home to the Lotus Mahal.
8:00 am – 6:00 pm · ₹40 for Indians · ₹600 for foreign visitors