The historical Town penukonda is located on the Guntakal Bangalore section of Southern Railway and
is about 71 Kms from Anantapur on Kurnool-Bangalore Highway it was once acted as Second Capital of the Glorious of Vijayanagara Number of religions in secular structures has been added at this place during the Vijayanagar a Period. In the residential for are the temples dedicated to Rama, Siva Mukteswara, Parswanatha Narasimha Venkateswara Kali Mosques, Thinmarusu Jail Mathias Wate Towers Ungala Gopuram. Water tanks and Gagan Mahal a important structures. Gagan Mahal is onlystructure is under the control o the Department of Archeology and Museums, Government of Andhrapradesh.
An old Hindu palace ie Gagan Mahal is located to the south of Kamasio and Eswara Temples It was the summer palace and Harant of Vijayanagara rulers The building is facing cast and composes of the stories of arcade chambers, squareon plan with corner Eoser on Northern side. In front of the building there are steps leading in to the building also staircases on citier side leads to First floor. The ground floor consisting with recessed and forty five felisted arches in the pavilion seminiscent of the Loditupe of arches in th being of Delhi. The middle of the ground floor and first floor made a provision of rooms. The first floor has twelve arches and eight windows. The surface of the walls of building is coated with stucco. The pyramidal roof built-up in tiers is obviously adopted from Sikhara er the Dravidian style. The tower has six projecting windocis supported by brackets. It was built by a combination of Indo-Persian architectural style knoon as Indo Saracenic adopted by Vijayanagara kings The Palace was built without a single rafter, a unique specimen architecture
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1 ноя 2022
