{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Incredible India Travel | Social Impact & Culture Tours","title":"Hampi Travel Guide: The Complete Guide to India's Most Extraordinary Ruined City","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1441,"description":"In 1500 AD Hampi was the second largest city in the world.Only Beijing was bigger.Its markets stretched for kilometres in every direction. Its temples were sheathed in gold. Its streets were thronged with merchants from Portugal, Persia, Arabia and China who had come to trade with the most powerful empire in South India. The Tungabhadra River flowed through its heart, its banks lined with ghats and gardens and the residences of a court whose wealth was so extraordinary that foreign travellers ran out of superlatives trying to describe it.Today Hampi is a village of a few thousand people surrounded by over 1600 ancient monuments spread across 4187 hectares of one of the most dramatically beautiful landscapes in India. Massive granite boulders pile upon each other in formations of surreal grandeur. Banana plantations line the river banks. Ruins of palaces, temples, stables and market streets extend in every direction across a terrain that looks like it was designed by a painter rather than shaped by geology.Hampi is the most Google-searched tourist destination in Karnataka. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. And it is one of the most extraordinary places in India.In this episode we take you on the complete Hampi travel guide, from the founding of the Vijayanagara Empire in 1336 AD to the catastrophic Battle of Talikota in 1565 that ended it in a single devastating afternoon, from the musical pillars of the Vittala Temple to the sacred geography of the Ramayana landscape that surrounds every monument, from the sunrise at Matanga Hill to the coracle ride across the Tungabhadra and the living village of Anegundi that predates the empire itself.We tell the complete story of Krishnadevaraya, the greatest of the Vijayanagara kings, whose court attracted scholars and merchants from across Asia and whose temple building programme produced some of the most extraordinary examples of Dravidian architecture ever created. We explore every major monument in depth, the Vittala...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/eWrZ3doNBWF40S0S56sC17IDwfhLRtHiDkqKOrNCvtA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85Yjg5/Y2Q3ODM2NzZkOTcz/NGJiMWMwMDEzMTFl/YjI3NC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}