Four and a half centuries, one walkable neighbourhood, four ways to play it.

The trail is a timeline

Namma City Decoded starts beside a fighter jet and ends beside a steam engine. Between them, the landmarks you solve at were built in this order. Dates from our History Companion.

1. 2001HAL Tejas, Minsk Square India's own supersonic fighter takes its first flight; its gate guardian now starts the walk. The square has honoured the Bengaluru–Minsk twinning since 1973.
2. 1962Visvesvaraya Museum Opens for the engineer who tamed rivers with automated floodgates. The finish line, beside a vintage steam engine.
3. 1956Vidhana Soudha Completed in granite quarried outside the city, built to out-grand the British court across the road.
4. 1927Maharaja Chamarajendra Wadiyar X His memorial statue is unveiled in Cubbon Park. The royal land grants seeded the city's great institutions.
5. 1915State Central Library Rises in red brick to honour Sir K. Seshadri Iyer, the Dewan who gave the city its park and its streetlights.
6. 1868Attara Kacheri, the "Eighteen Offices" opens its Pompeiian-red arcades. Today it is the High Court of Karnataka.
7. 1537Kempegowda I Ploughs out a mud fort and four watchtowers. Bengaluru begins.