Vijayawada’s first heritage walk evokes good response

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Participants astatine  a historically important    landmark during a practice  thrust  organised by INTACH Vijayawada connected  Sunday. The inaugural  aims to make  consciousness  astir  the city’s affluent  taste  and architectural practice  among students and the public.

Participants astatine a historically important landmark during a practice thrust organised by INTACH Vijayawada connected Sunday. The inaugural aims to make consciousness astir the city’s affluent taste and architectural practice among students and the public. | Photo Credit: G.N. RAO

Families gathered astatine P.B. Siddhartha College of Arts and Science connected Sunday for a practice locomotion and a car thrust done caves and canals of Vijayawada city.

A assemblage of men, women and children of each property groups, immoderate of them equipped with cameras, gathered to beryllium portion of the archetypal ever practice locomotion and car thrust organised by the Vijayawada section of Indian National Trust of Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) connected Sunday. INTACH nationalist Chairman Ashok Singh Thakur and NTR District Collector G. Lakshmisha flagged disconnected the practice car rally.

The participants, particularly the younger lot, listened successful attraction arsenic INTACH volunteers explained to them astir the value of each site, bringing each monument to beingness by weaving unneurotic stories of faith, architecture, and culture.

Children watched successful awe the Mogulrajpuram caves, carved retired of coagulated stone astir 1,500 years ago, erstwhile they were informed that they were among Vijayawada’s oldest surviving relics of aboriginal Hindu rock-cut architecture. The intricate carvings of deities similar Lord Vinayaka and Ardhanareeswara depicted stories of devotion and artistry from the 5th century.

Atop the historical Gandhi Hill which overlooks the city, a vantage constituent crowned with the country’s archetypal stupa dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi welcomed the visitors. The inscriptions connected the stupa reminded of Gandhiji’s ideals of bid and unity and the hill’s panoramic presumption of Vijayawada.

The lawsuit was a delightful premix of abbreviated walks and little car rides to the practice sites farther away, but the excitement ne'er waned.

The lawsuit concluded astatine the Vijayawada Club.

During a gathering held later, S.V.S. Lakshmi Narayana was appointed arsenic the Andhra Pradesh State convener of INTACH, portion Sai Papineni was made convener of the Vijayawada section and Prasuna Balantrapu co-convenor, Vijayawada.

Published - October 12, 2025 11:30 p.m. IST

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