Mysuru District
The former Wadiyar kingdom capital, famed for its palace and Dasara festival.
Chamundi Hills & Nandi Monolith
Mysuru
The hill sacred to the Mysore royal family, crowned by the Chamundeshwari temple and reached by a thousand-step stairway guarded midway by a huge monolithic Nandi bull carved in 1659.
Stamp at: Chamundi Hill Post Office
Lalitha Mahal Palace
Mysuru
Mysuru's second-largest palace, built in 1921 to host the British Viceroy, its Italianate double-storey facade and central dome modelled loosely on St. Paul's Cathedral — now run as a heritage hotel.
Stamp at: Mysuru Post Office
Mysuru Amba Vilas Palace
Mysuru
The Indo-Saracenic royal residence of the Wadiyar dynasty, one of India's most-visited monuments and the centrepiece of Mysuru's Dasara festival — and one of the four cities where the Philately Passport itself is sold.
Stamp at: Mysuru Head Post Office
Nanjangud Srikanteshwara Temple
Mysuru
One of Karnataka's largest Shiva temple complexes, on the banks of the Kabini, patronised by both the Mysore Wodeyars and — by tradition — Tipu Sultan after his favourite elephant was reputedly cured here.
Stamp at: Nanjangud Post Office
Somnathpur Keshava Temple
Mysuru
A trikuta Hoysala temple completed in 1268 CE, its three star-shaped soapstone shrines covered in dense friezes — part of the "Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas" UNESCO World Heritage listing alongside Belur and Halebidu.
Stamp at: Somnathpur Post Office
St. Philomena's Cathedral
Mysuru
A Neo-Gothic cathedral built through the 1930s under Mysore Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV's patronage, its twin spires modelled on Cologne Cathedral and, at completion, among the tallest church buildings in Asia.
Stamp at: Mysuru Post Office