Heritage Karnataka Hampi Badami Pattadakal Aihole Lakkundi Kittur Chennamma Fort Chitradurga Fort Bijapur Gulbarga Fort Bidar Fort Mysore Palace Srirangapatna Somnathpur Belur Halebeedu Bangalore Palace Tipu's Fort And Palace Bellary Fort Adi Chunchanagiri       District: Bidar   Gulbarga - 120km Bangalore - 720km   Bidar   Hyderabad - 136km STD Code: 08482     Bidar is the northern most district of Karnataka. Medieval Bidar was widely renowned for its splendour, as a seat of learning, cultural marvels and as a capital city. Bidar is situated almost in the centre of geographical ‘Deccan’ and on the eastern border of the historical ‘Deccan’. It was a meeting place of several shades of culture from the very beginning. The history of Bidar has a lot of ups and downs and stories of treachery and bloodbath, but was also marked by good administration and development of art, architecture and literature.   The historical monuments and sites in and around Bidar city belong to different periods of history -   pre-Kakatiya, Tughluq, Bahamani, Barid Shahi, Adil Shahi, Mughal and Nizami. As far the architecture   is concerned, there is an intermixture of Hindu, Turkish and Persian artisanship. Some of the designs   and decorative patterns seen in the monuments of Bidar are unique in India.