Places to visit in Bangalore in 1 day, in order

A 16th-century temple built round a single granite Nandi, Shiva's bull, about 4.5 m tall and 6 m long, darkened with oil and butter. The Dodda Ganesha temple, with a huge Ganesha covered in butter on some days, is a minute's walk down the road, and Bugle Rock Park is behind them.

A Shiva temple inside a natural cave in Gavipuram, said to go back to the 9th century and enlarged by Kempe Gowda. In the courtyard stand two huge stone discs, the sun and the moon, and on Makar Sankranti in mid-January the setting sun shines through a window onto the lingam inside.

A 240-acre garden laid out by Hyder Ali in 1760 and finished by Tipu Sultan. The glasshouse, built in 1889 like London's Crystal Palace, holds the flower shows in January and August. There are old trees from all over the world, a lake, and the Lalbagh Rock, a 3,000-million-year-old outcrop with one of Kempe Gowda's watch towers on top.

A two-storey palace built almost all of teak, finished in 1791 as Tipu Sultan's summer retreat. Carved wooden pillars and arches hold up balconies that were once painted in bright colours, and the rooms downstairs have a small museum on Tipu and his father Hyder Ali.

What is left of the fort Kempe Gowda built of mud in 1537 and Hyder Ali rebuilt in stone. A stone gateway with carved arches, a small Ganesha shrine inside and a stretch of wall are all that stand today. The British took it in 1791.

The granite home of Karnataka's legislature, finished in 1956: a huge domed building in a mix of Indian temple and colonial styles. 'Government work is God's work' is carved over the entrance. The red High Court, Attara Kacheri, faces it across the road.

The Mysore Wadiyar family's Bangalore home, built from 1878 to look like Windsor Castle, with turrets, battlements and ivy. Inside are the durbar hall, carved wooden ceilings, old hunting trophies and family portraits. The family still owns it.

One of the largest ISKCON temples in the world, opened in 1997 on Hare Krishna Hill in Rajajinagar. A gold-plated flagpost and tower top a temple of glass and stone to Radha and Krishna. The way up and down runs past chanting, stalls and the prasadam hall.