Ganagapur (Dattatreya Temple)

The ruined pleasure-capital founded on the Bhima around 1400 by Sultan Firoz Shah Bahmani — a walled city with a mosque, palace and gateways, now a quiet field of Bahmani ruins south-west of Kalaburagi.

A tall, isolated 14th-century Bahmani tomb on a rise near the city, known for the strong echo under its great dome; its massive proportions are said to have anticipated Bijapur’s Gol Gumbaz.

The principal shrine of the 18th-century philosopher-saint Sharana Basaveshwara in the heart of Kalaburagi, set beside a large sacred tank; a major Lingayat pilgrimage centre with a great annual jatre and chariot festival.

The grand mosque built inside Gulbarga Fort around 1367, its entire courtyard famously roofed by scores of domes and arched bays — a design often said to echo the Great Mosque of Córdoba, and one of the earliest such mosques in the Deccan.

The Bahmani citadel rebuilt by Ala-ud-din Bahman Shah in the 14th century when Gulbarga became the sultanate’s first capital — a moated fort with double walls, fifteen towers and old cannon, enclosing the great Jama Masjid and ruined palaces.

A walled group of seven great Bahmani royal tombs on the eastern edge of the city — "haft gumbaz", the seven domes — the largest being the twin-domed mausoleum of Sultan Firoz Shah Bahmani.

A 14th-century Bahmani mosque with a broad arcaded prayer hall and an adjoining square domed tomb, a lesser-visited monument of the old capital.

The dargah of the 14th- to 15th-century Sufi saint Khwaja Bande Nawaz Gesu Daraz, one of the most revered Sufi shrines in South India — an Indo-Saracenic complex with painted interiors, a historic library and a vast annual urs.

A large modern Buddhist vihara opened in 2009 on the Sedam road, its 70-foot central dome and gateways drawing on the Sanchi, Sarnath, Ajanta and Nagpur traditions — a serene, contemporary counterpoint to the city’s medieval monuments.

The Chandralamba (Chandrala Parameshwari) temple on the Bhima at Sannati — a Shakta pilgrimage site whose 1986 collapse of a slab revealed rare Ashokan edicts, linking the living temple to one of India’s oldest Buddhist landscapes.

The excavated Maha Stupa at Kanaganahalli near Sannati — a roughly 2,000-year-old "Adholoka Maha Chaitya" ringed by carved limestone panels, including a unique portrait relief of Emperor Ashoka; one of the most important early Buddhist finds in the Deccan.

An irrigation dam and reservoir on the Bennethora river in the Chittapur belt, its long bund and open water a quiet stop in the district’s dry countryside.