Guard's Quarters near Elephant Stables
An Indo-Islamic arched gallery beside the Elephant Stables, now a small archaeological museum.
Open
8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Entry
₹40 for Indians · ₹600 for foreign visitors
Best time to go
Morning
Time to spend here
About 30 minutes
Crowds
Can get busy
Covered by the same ASI ticket as the Elephant Stables and Lotus Mahal; combine with the stables in one stop.
On the ASI ticket
This place is one of ten that share one ASI ticket. Bought for a date, the same ticket also gets you into these that day:
₹35 online for Indian visitors · ₹550 for foreign visitors
How the ticket worksListen to the story
About this place
The Guard's Quarters stand at right angles to the Elephant Stables in the Royal Centre, sharing a courtyard and guarding the approach to the Zenana Enclosure. The long single-storey building rests on a high platform and is fronted by a row of pointed arches in the Indo-Islamic style favoured for secular Vijayanagara buildings. Today it houses a small open-air museum of stone sculptures recovered from sites around Hampi.
Where it is
Close by
Photo credits
- Guard's Quarters near Elephant Stables: Guards House close to Elephant Stable - Side view · Balraj D · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Guard's Quarters near Elephant Stables: Guards House close to Elephant's Stable MS · Maheshwaran S · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Guard's Quarters near Elephant Stables: Guards House close to Elephant's Stable 1 · Jaisuvyas · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Guard's Quarters near Elephant Stables: Guards House close to Elephant Stable - Inner view · Balraj D · CC BY-SA 4.0
