Bijapur Fort

About this place

Known as the Agra of the South, Bijapur has a lot of amazing monuments amongst which is the Bijapur Fort. Yusuf Adil Shahi built this fort in the year 1565. The fort has two concentric circles and the one in the middle is 1300 ft in length and the axis on east west is 3 kms. The outer wall of the fort is 10 kms long. Massive materials with ninety six large bastions of various designs are used to strengthen the fort. Ten bastions on the outside at the five gate-ways are decorated beautifully. The five gateways in the fort are the Makka gate on the west, the Shahapur gate at the North West corner, the Bahmani gate on the north, the Allahpur gate on the east, and the Fateh gate on the south east. The fort was guarded by 2000 men and it had close to 1000 canons made of brass and iron.