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HOME : Heritage Cities & its Heritage Sites -» Haleibid
Haleibid Haleibid is a popular spot in Hassan District of Karnataka state which is about 200 km west of Bangalore. It relishes the standing of being amidst a flourishing agricultural landscape with hills all around. It had served as the Hoysala capital in the 12th and 13th centuries. Halebid got also its fame as Dwara Samudra, the prosperous capital of Hoysalas. It boasts of quite a few remarkably good-looking Hoysala temples and Jain shrines. The Hoysaleshwara temple maintains a fine standing on platform like a casket and has made wave worldwide for being a sculptural magnificence. The temple is opulently endowed by means of most delicately detailed scroll work in stone.
Attractions in HaleibidKedareeshwara Temple is a superb temple and has been rated as an architectural delight, and beautifully brings out the sculptor's acute sense of ingenuity. Basti Hills are barely few minutes away from the Halebid temples and relish its Jain Bastis with gleaming black stone pillars. The Hoysaleshwara temple maintains a fine standing on platform like a casket. The temple is opulently endowed by means of most delicately detailed scroll work in stone. It has the figure of mortals and immortals marvellously engraved in gleaming black stone. A museum there also attracts travellers with its 12-13th century sculptures and the gold coins. Halebid was once a renowned centre of Jain culture and religion, and it has many Jain temples still to be excavated. Belur is just few minutes away (17 kms) from Halebid, and frequented by a vast number of travellers for the temples with their striking sculptures. Sravanbelagola, a very celebrated Jain pilgrimage is about two hours drive from here and attracts people for its biggest statue of Gomateshwara. Heritage Cities & its Heritage SitesAgra | Hampi | Hassan | Belur | Haleibid | Bodhgaya | Vaishali | Sarnath | Bhubaneshwar | Aurangabad | LucknowHyderabad | Jaipur | Khajuraho| Cochin | Goa | Mumbai | Gwalior City ToursAgra | Bikaner | Chennai | Delhi | Hyderabad | Jaipur | Jaisalmer | Jodhpur | Kochi | Kolkatta | Mumbai | TrivandrumUdaipur | Guwahati | Varanasi | Khajuraho | Lucknow | Bhopal | Bhubaneshwar | Ahmedabad | Pune | Goa | Bangalore |