About Bangalore City

Bangalore or Bengaluru is most popular city of India due to beautiful gardens, lakes and pleasant climate and very colorful night life. It is capital of Karnataka State and the fifth largest city in India. It is also called garden city because of large number of tree and parks and flowers gardens of various colors and varieties. Modern city of Bengaluru was founded in 1537 by Kempe Gowda a feudatory of famous Vijaynagar Empire. It is situated halfway between the coasts in southern India. Bangalore is also known as silicon valley of india because of its first position in export of IT. Due to its high elevation Bangalore boasts of pleasant climate all through the year except occasional hot weather in summer.

Around 50 lakhs people of different multi casts creed live in Bengalore, The Kannadigas as they are localy called are famous for their hospitality and friendly and cultured attitude towards visitors. Violence is rarely seen and visitors feel safe in Bengalore. Kannada is main language spoken and written or read but Hindi and English are other languages spoken in Bengalore.Yugadi and Dessehara are main festival while Makar Sakranti Ramanavami, Janamshatmi, Deepwali are also celeberated with enthusiasm

Bangalore is well connected by air to all metro cities of country like Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta. Air India operates direct flights from/to many cities of world including London, New York, Chicago Paris, Dubai,Abudhabi Riyadh, Jeddha and Jeddah and Kuwait. Likewise German airlines, British airways and Air France also operates from Frankfurt, London Heathrow and Paris respectively. Bangalore Delhi Rajdhani Express connect Bangalore to Delhi Capital of India and also Bangalore is connected to all other major cities of country i.e Mumbai, Chennai, Calcutta and Bhopal.

Main places of attraction in Banglore are Lal Bagh, Vidhan Soudh, Cubbon Park, Palace of Tipu Sultan, Attara Kachehri and Fort and Science City and Fort and Lakes & Parks and Government Museum.

There are many five four and three star hotel to stay in Bangalore, Taj west End Race Course Road, Phone 2225 5055 , The Oberoi, 37_59 M.G.Road Phone 2558 5858, and Leela Palace, Le Meridian, Taj Residency, Ashok Bangalore are few five star hotels and there are also 4 ,3 and 2 star hotels such as The Gateway The Park, the Capitol Hotel Nahar, Bangalore International Hotel Rama, Hotel Central park etc.

Banglore is also known as silicon valley of india as large number of information technology companies are located in the city. There are three main clusters of IT industry i.e Software Technology Parks of India, International tech Park, and Electronic City and these contribute almost 33% of India’s IT export. Infosys and Wipro, India’s second and third largest software companies have their headquarter at Bangalore. And US based companies like google, IBM, Yahoo, Intel, Microsoft etc have also their Offices in Bangalore.