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UNESCO World Heritage — South & West India

From the ruins of Vijayanagara to the caves of Ajanta. South and West India's UNESCO sites span 2,000 years of art, faith, and empire.

8 destinations in this collection
Hampi
1

Hampi

467m

Karnataka

Vijayanagara ruins — 1,600 monuments across 4,187 hectares

Ajanta Caves
2

Ajanta Caves

450m

Maharashtra

2,000-year-old Buddhist cave paintings. India's oldest surviving art

Ellora Caves
3

Ellora Caves

560m

Maharashtra

Kailasa Temple carved top-down from single rock. Buddhist-Hindu-Jain

Pattadakal
4

Pattadakal

530m

Karnataka

Chalukyan temple laboratory — Dravidian and Nagara styles together

Belur
5

Belur

933m

Karnataka

Hoysala soapstone carving masterpiece. UNESCO 2024

Halebidu
6

Halebidu

917m

Karnataka

Hoysaleswara Temple — continuous sculptural frieze

Old Goa
7

Old Goa

15m

Goa

16th-century Portuguese churches. Basilica of Bom Jesus

Ramappa Temple
8

Ramappa Temple

280m

Telangana

UNESCO 2021 — floating bricks, named after sculptor, not deity

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