Fort Warangal Park

If you're ever in Warangal, then this a must visit place! It is quiet, serene, so well maintained by the Archeological Survey of India with a nominal entry and car parking fee. Be prepared to carry some cash though. Or you could exchange an UPI payment for cash.

Ensure that you don't rubbish this place as the architecture is a marvel! While selfies and pictures are allowed if you pay for it in your ticket, I'd suggest not wasting your entire time clicking pictures. Appreciate the fine workmanship that has gone into this heritage structure!

You'll spend a good hour or two if you wish to have good conversations here while walking around.

Must visit place. It will take 30mins to 1 hr to get the complete tour of the place. Tickets on entrance. Not very crowded. Parking is available.

It is historical place. Instead of giving free entry to public, government started generating revenue from this place.
Need to take seperate tickets for both gardens.
Entry and parking both are paid service only.
Atleast they need to provide minimum needs to public. No clean drinking water, very dirty toilets. If you come with family, better to bring food from home only.

It is really great to see the ancient culture rich architecture. It should be preserved well. You can have a sneak peek into the culture of the Kakatiya Dynasty rulers.
A recommended place to visit with family.

Warangal Fort is located in Warangal District, Telangana, India. It was the capital city of Kakatiya dynasty and Musunuri Nayakas. It appears to have existed since at least the 12th century when it was the capital of the Kakatiyas. The fort has four ornamental gates, known as Kakatiya Kala Thoranam, that originally formed the entrances to a now ruined great Shiva temple. The Kakatiyan arch has been adopted and officially incorporated into the emblem of Telangana after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. The fort is included in the "tentative list" of UNESCO World Heritage Site and was submitted by the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO on 10/09/2010.
Warangal Fort is laid out in three concentric circular walls with defensive fortifications. The first structure, built during the reign of Rudrama Devi, was in the form an earthen embankment 1.5 miles (2.4 km) in diameter. A moat of about 150 feet (46 m) width was dug around this wall, forming the outer limits of the fort during the reign of the Kakatiya rulers. Another wall built to protect the fort after the earthen wall and the moat was a fortified inner stone wall of about 0.75 miles (1.21 km) in diameter. It was the central part of the Kakatiya capital, called the fort. This wall was built with dressed huge granite stone blocks of very large dimensions. These stones were not in any regular shape, but were closely fitted without using any type of mortar. During the reign of Rudrama Devi, the height of the wall was increased to 29 feet (8.8 m) from the structure which had been built earlier by Ganapatideva. The wall has been fortified with 45 large rectangular bastions, which measure 40–60 feet (12–18 m) on a side; they extend beyond the face of the wall up to the waters of the moat. There are also 18 stone steps laid over a gradual slope built on the inner slopes of the earthen wall as an access to the ramparts. These steps permitted the soldiers quick and easy access in times of war from any location in the fort, including the top of the ramparts. The king, Prataparudra II, had used these steps to go to the rampart in 1318, clad in a qaba to bow towards Delhi, in honor of the Sultan.

The third ring of fortification is in the form of an earthen wall of 12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi) diameter that encloses the present city of Warangal.
Just outside the central fort, the earthen wall, which is the second circle of the fort complex in the northwestern part, has within it the Linga gudi ('gudi' means "shrine"), which consists of three small temples; but the linga deities have been removed and are seen scattered nearby.

There are many inscriptions on the ruins of the wall of the main temple recording the gift of a Kakatiya king, on pillars, on a stone outside the fort, and at many more places, all in Telugu. Source from Internet..

This park contains the pieces of the demolished Warangal fort which was built by the Kakatiyas, but the government has arranged the found pieces in a way for the viewer to get an idea of what the fort must have looked like. The stone carvings on every piece will make you awestruck, it will make you think how this kind of architecture was possible back in the 13th century. Every pillar and arch is beautifully carved.
This place will make you feel proud about how rich the Indian history is, and at the same time a little sad about the fact that it was destroyed by foreign invaders.

I will try to cover places which i visited in a day visit of Warangal.
It was the time of 12th century, when rulers of Southern India were trying to prove their dominance and this requires a majority believe on something, that something should be like which can connect people to people, thoughts to thoughts and rituals to rituals.
So, in a nutshell, a way though which garland of religiosity could be made and thereby increased the making of temples, which became a centre of rendering power to rulers in different ways like yagna and other samskaras.
Warangal is one such place of south india, which is known for temples and excellence in its temple architecture, few major reasons could be the inclination of rulers towards spirituality, religiosity and their desire to establish themselves as a supreme power in the eyes of common people, this desire has also portryaed themselves as god at few instances.
And i am writing this, because of a very unplanned trip to warangal which made us to pack our bags in just 5min and that's why i think the random plans are always executed because it don't let us overthink.
So, the story begins from Hyderabad in the evening and we reached Warangal by 8pm.
Night went by planning and thinking of places which we'll be visiting and morning finally started with the famous thousand pillar temple.
1. Thousand Pillars temple : 12th century saw the onset of this temple and twas completed in 1163 AD by the creator Rudra Deva under the patronage of Kakatiya dynasty rulers.
This temple saw lord Shiva, Vishnu and Surya under its ambit but due to the invasion of Tughlaq Dynasty (Delhi Sultanate) it has been demolished a bit, i guess due to which we can't see lord Vishnu and Surya idols there(correct me if i'm wrong).
This temple has been under the tentative list of UNESCO world heritage site.
2. Bhadrakali temple: As Warangal is famous for very old temples , this one is 7th century temple and is believed to be built in 625 AD by Chalukya dynasty ruler Pulakeshin 2.
The interesting part is the history of Kohinoor diamond which is closely associated with this temple as it was installed as the left eye of goddess bhadrakali.
This temple is surrounded by a beautiful lake which keeps watering the temple.
3. Warangal fort: This fort speaks about the warangal city as whole in terms of temples and other rituals and practices.
Here, the kings himself portrayed as a god as per some of the idol remains.
The unique thing which i noticed here is the place of Shiva linga, it seems that shiva linga has been given a rajasinhasam which i've never seen till date
Now let the picture speaks as per words and swipe right for the pictures..
So, this is how 2nd month of this year went on exploring a new city nearby Hyderabad.

Very beautiful sculptures from 12th century Kakatiya Dynasty. Finesse is evident in the carvings preserved here. If you have a liking for Indian arts, crafts and history.. I recommend you to pay a visit to this place. Some statues here are still in good shape.