Bangalore Palace: Entry fee, Timings and Pictures

Bangalore Palace is one of the must-see places in Bangalore if you are a fan of architecture and history. Here are more details about the bangalore palace.

Bangalore Palace Details:

Bangalore Palace timings:
10 AM to 6 PM (All day open)

Bangalore Palace Entry fee: (Without Audio guide)
Indians: 225
Foreigners: 450
Still camera: 675
Camcorder: 1400
Mobile phones: 100

Audio Guide duration: 2-3 hours
Audio guides are attached with headphone and they speak into your ear and tell you the significance of everything of the palace. Palace tour is divided into sections and rooms and accordingly audio guide guides you.

Bangalore Palace Contact number: +91-80-2336 0818, 2331 5789

What to see in Bangalore Palace?

– Palace made in castle-style
– Stool made from Elephant foot
– Chariots, Garden, canon, Tonga and royal life of the king
– interior decorations of Durbar hall, rosewood furniture, manual elevator
– Tons of Paintings including nude art
– Stained glass windows in Gothic style
– Beauty of the Durbar hall, assembly area and the dining hall of the king
– King’s part of the palace and queen’s part of the palace
– Horse-hoof shaped jockey weighing machine
– And many more astonishing things from Royal life

Other things to look out for in Bangalore Palace:
– Amusement park situated inside palace ground complex, Joyrides, snow room, water park
– Bangalore Palace ground events like book festival, concerts, Music performances, Dandiya etc. (Please check the internet for regular updates)

Bangalore Palace Pictures

Castled style main entrance to the palace, Yellow granite bricks

Chariots Bangalore Palace

Tonga and chariots used for festivals and open for visitors for taking a ride- paid service

Canon Bangalore palace

Wooden wheeled canon

Head of an elephant in background, bangalore palace

 The Durbar hall entrance; A elephant head in the background; stairs leading to durbar hall are made up of rosewood. An audio guide hanging with headphones on

Lamps Bangalore palace

The durbar hall lightnings. See the golden yellow decors on the roof; Durbar hall has many things colored in yellow including sofas, curtains, and dining sets

Painting of a woman, Bangalore PalaceThere are many paintings in aisles of the palace showing Indian beauty. The Wadyar king was a great admirer of the beautiful ladies

Elephant leg stool, Bangalore palaceThe king was a great hunter and hunted as many as 300 elephants and tigers. The picture shows a stool made up of elephant’s foot

A green grass house, Bangalore palaceThe glass house said to have the greenhouse effect

Belgium glass, Bangalore palaceYellow sofa, yellow interiors and glass framed in the golden frame at Durbar hall. This glass was made in Belgium. The queen & other ladies used to watch the assembly proceedings in the reflection of this glass. You can see where queen used to sit behind transparent curtain

A lady in an art, bangalore palaceAnother painting at Bangalore palace

The marriage hall behind the Bangalore palaceBangalore palace area can be rented for occasions. In the picture, decoration going on

main hall, dining room, court bangalore palaceDurbar hall served the purpose of dining hall and assembly area as well

Rose wood piono, Bangalore palacePiano made from rosewood and in the background stained windows in Gothic style

Painting and art of a woman in bangalore palaceAnother painting, Dressed in traditional Rajasthani style

The bangalore PalaceBangalore Palace from outside with grasses and castle style architecture

Boutique, Bangalore PalaceA room inside Palace converted into boutique to display queen’s attire

Painting of Cleopatra, Bangalore PalacePainting of Cleopatra (There is an interesting description available of this painting over internet- A must read recommended)

privacy to Durbar hall for queen, Bangalore palaceThe private room from where watched the assembly proceedings of Durbar hall sitting behind curtain

Nude art or nude painting, Bangalore palaceNude art inside palace

Courtyard covered with fluorescent blue ceramic tiles, Bangalore PalaceCourtyard covered with fluorescent blue ceramic tiles, Bangalore Palace where sometimes queen would take bath

A chair to weigh jockeys, Bangalore palaceThis is a weighing chair to weigh jockey’s with a shape of horse-hoof legs

Another nude art or nude painting at Bangalore palaceAnother, one of the many, Nude arts at Bangalore palace

An aisle leading to ladies part of the Bangalore palaceAisle leading to private and feminine part of the palace

 

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