Cubbon Park site features

Roughly 300 acres of planted ground spread across Bengaluru’s central administrative district. Broad avenues pass under high, interlocking tree crowns; smaller paths slip toward lawns, statues and red civic buildings.

The landscape opens and closes repeatedly. One turn frames the Seshadri Iyer Memorial Hall behind a formal garden; another passes bamboo or dense trunks; a wider clearing exposes traffic and the surrounding skyline.

There is no single façade or final viewpoint. The park is assembled through movement: shade above, roots and leaf litter at the path edge, lawns set back from roads, then a museum, library or memorial giving the next direction.

Tree avenues

From 1870 onward. Successive planting campaigns created long shaded routes of rain trees, silver oak, gulmohar and other introduced and regional species.

Seshadri Iyer Memorial Hall

1915. The red, columned building houses the State Central Library and anchors a formal planted approach.

Attara Kacheri

1864. The present Karnataka High Court predates the park and forms a red architectural edge opposite Vidhana Soudha.

Bandstand

Early 20th century. The small cast-iron pavilion recalls the park’s role in public music and social life.

Statues and memorials

19th–20th centuries. Memorials to Mysore rulers, administrators and British monarchs are dispersed through the grounds rather than gathered in one court.

Museum precinct

From 1876. The Government Museum and neighbouring cultural institutions make the south-eastern park edge a separate indoor cluster.