Landmarks: timings and tickets

B M Birla Science Centre and Planetarium

A science centre in Hyderabad run by GPBAASRI, with a planetarium, a science museum, an observatory and an art gallery on one campus.

Charminar

The four-minaret monument at the heart of Hyderabad's Old City, built in 1591–92 by Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah and protected by the Archaeological Survey of India.

Chowmahalla Palace

A palace complex of the Nizams of Hyderabad in Motigalli, Old City, whose buildings now house museum displays.

Closed: Friday

Durgam Cheruvu

A lake near Shilparamam and HITEC City, surrounded by granite rocks, popular for walks and boating.

Golconda Fort

A hill fort on the western side of Hyderabad that was the capital of the Qutub Shahi dynasty from 1518 to 1687 and is now protected by the Archaeological Survey of India.

Hussain Sagar

A lake built in the Qutb Shahi period between Hyderabad and Secunderabad, with a monolithic Buddha statue standing in the water.

Nehru Zoological Park

Hyderabad's zoo at Bahadurpura, next to the Mir Alam tank, known for its lion safari and nocturnal animal house.

Qutb Shahi Heritage Park

The 106-acre necropolis of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, rulers of Golconda, with more than 100 monuments under conservation since 2013.

Open every day

Telangana State Archaeology Museum

The state archaeology museum in Public Gardens, Nampally, with sculpture, bronzes, manuscripts and an Egyptian mummy.

Bhongir Fort (Bhuvanagiri Fort)

A hill fort on an isolated monolithic rock above the town of Bhongir, attributed to the Western Chalukya king Tribhuvanamalla Vikramaditya VI.

Nagarjuna Sagar Dam

A masonry dam across the Krishna River in Nalgonda district, with 26 gates, built for irrigation and hydroelectric power.

Warangal Fort

The ruins of the Kakatiya capital at Warangal, with three rings of fortification and the four carved stone gateways of a vanished temple.

Ramappa Temple (Kakatiya Rudreshwara Temple)

A 13th-century Kakatiya temple to Lord Shiva at Palampet in Mulugu district, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2021.

Sri Anjaneya Swamy Temple, Kondagattu

A hill temple to Lord Anjaneya (Hanuman) amid hills and forest at Kondagattu in Jagtial district.

Sri Gnana Saraswati Temple, Basara

A temple to Saraswati, goddess of knowledge, on the Godavari at Basar, where children are brought for Akshara Abhyasam.

Sri Jogulamba Temple and the Navabrahma temples, Alampur

The Jogulamba shrine and the early Chalukyan Navabrahma temples at Alampur, on the Tungabhadra near its confluence with the Krishna.

Sri Kaleshwara Mukteswara Swamy Temple, Kaleshwaram

A Shiva temple at the Godavari–Pranahita confluence with two lingas on a single pedestal.

Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple, Yadagirigutta (Yadadri)

A hilltop cave temple to Lord Narasimha at Yadagirigutta, worshipped in five forms.

Sri Mallikarjuna Swamy Devasthanam (Komuravelli Mallanna), Komuravelli

The temple of Sri Mallikarjuna Swamy at Komuravelli, listed among Siddipet district's places of interest.

Sri Raja Rajeswara Swamy Temple, Vemulawada

A major Shiva temple at Vemulawada, popularly called Dakshina Kasi, where the presiding deity is fondly called Rajanna.

Sri Sita Ramachandra Swamy Temple, Bhadrachalam

The temple of Lord Rama at Bhadrachalam, on a hill above the Godavari river.

Thousand Pillar Temple (Sri Rudreshwara Swamy Temple)

A 12th-century Kakatiya temple at the foot of Hanamkonda hill, with three shrines to Shiva, Vishnu and Surya and famously carved pillars.