Mysore Palace
The seat of the Wadiyars, lit by a hundred thousand bulbs on Sunday nights.
- Where
- Mysuru, Karnataka, India
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 12.3052, 76.6552
Get the Mysore Palace stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Mysore Palace. 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 Mysore Palace
Jaganmohan Palace 0.6 km
The Wodeyars' other house in Mysuru, two hundred metres from the main palace and now an art gallery.
Mysore Zoo 1.4 km
Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens, a hundred and fifty seven acres a short walk from the palace.
Oriental Research Institute, Mysore 1.6 km
The building that holds the only known manuscript of Kautilya's Arthashastra.
St Philomena's Church 1.8 km
Neo gothic twin spires, modelled on Cologne.
Karanji Lake 2.0 km
A lake in Mysuru with a walk through aviary beside it, among the largest in the country.
Kukkarahalli Lake 2.8 km
A lake in Mysore dug in 1864, with a walking path R K Narayan used.
Sand Sculpture Museum 3.1 km
India's first museum of sand sculpture, on the road up Chamundi Hill. Around 150 sculptures in sand by a single artist, M. N. Gowri, among them Dasara elephants, gods and scenes from Mysuru's past.
Chamundi Hill 4.0 km
A thousand and eight steps up to a temple above Mysore, with a monolithic Nandi carved on the way at step seven hundred.
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Questions
Where is Mysore Palace?
Mysore Palace is in Mysuru, Karnataka. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Jaganmohan Palace (0.6 km), Mysore Zoo (1.4 km), Oriental Research Institute, Mysore (1.6 km).
How do I get the Mysore Palace stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Mysore Palace 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 Mysore Palace 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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