Nalgonda : Nandikonda

Religions such as Buddhism also flourished in AP in the past.Nandi konda situated in Nalgonda is a good example for this. Nandi Konda is a small village on the bank of Krishna River where several Buddhist structures like monasteries and pillared halls were unearthed  and preserved in a Museum of Central Archeological Department

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Warangal

Warangal also known as Orugallu, and Ekasila Nagaram) is a city and the district headquarters of Warangal district in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Warangal is 2nd largest city in Telangana region and 4th largest city in Andhra Pradesh.
Warangal was the capital of Kakatiya kingdom ruled by the Kakatiya dynasty from the 12th to the 14th centuries.
Ramappa temple,thousand pillar temple are some of the popular and interesting places to visit here

 

Salar Jung Museum

The Salar Jung Museum is an art museum located at Darushifa, on the southern bank of the Musi
 river in the city of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.The Salarjung Museum is the third largest museum in India housing the biggest one-man collections of antiques in the world
The Indian historical collections includes

• The paintings of legendary Raja Ravi Varma
• Aurangzeb's sword.
• Jade crafted daggers of, Emperor Jehangir, Noorjahan and Shah Jehan.
• A wardrobe of Tipu Sultan and
• A tiffin box made of gold and diamond

The furniture collection belonging from the time of Louis14^th-17^th and Napoleon

 Salar Jung III collected about 43,000 artifacts and 50,000 books and manuscripts out of which only few are displayed in today's museum.

Have  a look of the official website here

Theme song on Andhra Pradesh

Cricket and Sunrisers Hyderabad

One of the most popular sports in Andhra Pradesh is cricket.
The Hyderabad Cricket Association nurtures potential international players.
The Hyderabad cricket team has won the Ranji Trophy twice.
The Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad and ACA-VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam, regularly host international matches.
 The Sunrisers Hyderabad, an Indian Premier League franchise, is based in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam.
It is a cricket franchise based in Hyderabad by the IPL Governing Council.
 The team is owned by Kalanithi Maran of the Sun TV Network.
 Kumar Sangakkara is the captain, though to his recent bad form Cameron White has been captaining the squad.
 Tom Moody is the head coach and Simon Helmot is the assistant coach of the team.
Krish Srikkanth and VVS Laxman are the mentors of the team while Waqar Younis is the bowling coach of the team.

Andhra Pradesh :The Essence of Incredible India