Unkal Lake

The marquee monument of the district — an 11th–12th-century Western Chalukya temple in black granite at Unkal on the bank of Unkal Lake, a sandhara square-cross-plan temple and an ASI Monument of National Importance.

An ASI-protected Chalukya Shakti temple at Amargol near Hubballi — a dvikuta (twin-shrine) temple of the goddess Banashankari, with the adjacent Chalukya Sankaralinga temple nearby. (Distinct from the Banashankari temple of Badami in Bagalkot.)

A landmark public garden in central Hubballi built around a glass-house pavilion that hosts flower shows and civic events — a green heart of the city amid the market streets.

A major Advaita monastery in Hubballi around the samadhi of Sri Siddharoodha Swami (1929) — a large pilgrimage math historically visited by figures such as Tilak and Gandhi, busiest at its annual jatra.

A Chalukya-era Shiva temple in Dharwad town, with fine Mahishamardini and Chaturbhuja Ganapati sculptures — an in-town heritage shrine under-listed by the national aggregators.

A popular Hanuman (Anjaneya) temple on the bank of Nuggikeri Lake on the Dharwad–Kalghatgi road — a busy local pilgrimage that pairs with the lakeside setting.

The green campus of Karnatak University at Pavate Nagar, Dharwad, home to the Kannada Research Institute museum with its regional sculptures, inscriptions and coins — a heritage-and-academic stop.

The lake-and-garden locality of Sadhankeri in Dharwad, immortalised by the Jnanpith poet Da Ra Bendre — a lakeside walkway and boating spot beside the Bendre memorial, an anchor of Dharwad’s literary culture.

A large modern Jain temple complex (Navagraha Teerth) near Varur south of Hubballi, known for its tall monolithic Bhagwan Parshwanath and Bahubali statues — a major Jain pilgrimage and a striking landmark on the highway.

A fine 11th-century Western Chalukya temple at Kundgol on a star-shaped plan with sixty-four lathe-turned polished pillars — in a town also known as the home of the Hindustani musician Sawai Gandharva.

The town of Navalgund, famous for its GI-tagged jamkhana durries — flat-woven cotton carpets made by hand on an upright loom, a living craft tradition of the district.

A seminal 1050 CE Kalyani Chalukya temple at Annigeri — the first built in soapstone and, with its seventy-six pillars, the prototype for the great Itagi Mahadeva temple; Annigeri is also the birthplace of the Kannada poet Adikavi Pampa.