Module-2 Heritage walk and Craft corner

25/11/2022 

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Heritage walk helps us to understand our history and the ancestry that binds us together, at the same time, being an integral part of our present, and of our future…

India is a pictorial kaleidoscope of beautiful landscapes and rich cultural heritage spread throughout its opulent historical and royal cities that has been contributed by different people and races over the period of time. Culture and heritage plays an important role in building an economically sustainable and cohesive country and need a special focus for promotion and preservation. SPIC MACAY aims to preserve the rich heritage of our country, so that it can be passed on the generations to come by organizing heritage walk module.

The urban living makes the all the cities too familiar to notice anything extraordinary about it. People pass by the beautiful heritage buildings every day in a hurry to reach their offices or schools without noticing them. Heritage of a city communicates the history of that place. Heritage walk is a tool to explore the unexplored and neglected richness of the country. It plays an important role for the development of history and character of the city through generating interests and involvement of the local community in the urban conservation activity.

Hampi-Heritage Walk 

Located in Karnataka near the modern-era city of Hosapete. The Hampi monuments comprising the UNESCO world heritage site are a subset of the wider-spread Vijayanagara ruins. Almost all of the monuments were built between 1336 and 1570 CE during the Vijayanagara rule. The site has about 1,600 monuments and covers 41.5 square kilometres (16.0 sq mi).

The Hampi site has been studied in three broad zones; the first has been named the "sacred centre" by scholars such as Burton Stein and othersl; the second is referred to as the "urban core" or the "royal centre"; and the third constitutes the rest of metropolitan Vijayanagara. The sacred centre, alongside the river, contains the oldest temples with a history of pilgrimage and monuments pre-dating the Vijayanagara empire. The urban core and royal centre have over sixty ruined temples beyond those in the sacred centre, but the temples in the urban core are all dated to the Vijayanagara empire. The urban core also includes public utility infrastructure such as roads, an aqueduct, water tanks, mandapa, gateways and markets, monasteries. This distinction has been assisted by some seventy-seven stone inscriptions

Places we visited at Hampi

The Musical Pillars..!!

The Stone Chariot..!!

Virupaksha Temple..!!

Lotus Mahal..!!

Yantrodharaka Temple..!!

Kodanda Rama Temple..!!

Experience: 

In this module of heritage walk we visited Hampi with all the CSE staff. Our college bus was arranged for transportation. We started the journey at 7:00am towards Hampi. At Hampi we visited Virupaksha Temple, Vijaya Vitala Temple, Lotus Mahal, Yantrodharaka Temple, Kodanda Rama Temple, Elephant stables, Musical pillars, Stone chariot, Maha mantapa, Purandara dasa mantapa and many more. We had breakfast at Purandara dasa mantapa and lunch at Kadle kal ganesha mantapa. And finally at evening we visited Virupaksha temple while leavinig the spot Hampi. We had great experience at Hampi and learnt all the history behind those.

Conclusion:

I thank H.Vasanthamma Mam for conducting us this heritage walk regarding our SCR activity so well. We really learnt the values from history and spent good time as well.