K. R. Market
The flower market at the heart of old Bengaluru, at its best before six in the morning when the marigolds arrive by the tonne.
- Where
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 12.9636, 77.5775
Get the K. R. Market stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at K. R. Market. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Karnataka volume with your photos and a note.
Near K. R. Market
Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace 0.6 km
Teak pillars and painted plaster, finished in 1791, the last four years of a court that fought the British four times.
Dharmaraya Swamy Temple 0.7 km
The Tigala community's temple in the old city of Bengaluru, and the start of the Karaga festival.
Lalbagh Botanical Garden 1.6 km
Started by Hyder Ali in 1760, with a glass house modelled on the Crystal Palace and a rock three thousand million years old.
Cubbon Park 2.1 km
Three hundred acres of shade in the middle of Bengaluru, closed to traffic on Sundays since people asked.
Vidhana Soudha 2.3 km
Granite neo Dravidian built in 1956 to prove the state could raise something as grand as anything colonial.
Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple 2.3 km
A cave temple in Bengaluru where the sun passes between the horns of a stone bull each Makara Sankranti.
Government Museum, Bengaluru 2.3 km
One of the oldest museums in India, 1865, with the Halmidi inscription in it.
Bull Temple 2.6 km
A Nandi four and a half metres tall carved from one granite boulder in the sixteenth century, when the town was new.
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Questions
Where is K. R. Market?
K. R. Market is in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace (0.6 km), Dharmaraya Swamy Temple (0.7 km), Lalbagh Botanical Garden (1.6 km).
How do I get the K. R. Market stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at K. R. Market and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Karnataka volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to K. R. Market before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Karnataka volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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