<strong>INTRODUCTION</strong>
Kamalapura town is a small town in the Bellary district of Karnataka. The main attraction of the town is Hampi group of monuments. The town is well connected with roadways to nearby cities and villages. The cities like Bellary, Bangalore, Hospet etc have a good road facility from Kamalapura.

The State Highway passes through the Town limits. Kamalapura is about 12 kms away from Hospet. It includes a part of the site of the old city of Vijayanagara. It contains a fort wall with a high round bastion in the centre, Circular Bastion at the fort corners and the other bastions in the middle of the walls.

Kamalapura was a fortified settlement during the Vijayanagara period. A part of the
remains of the fortifications are evident today. Kamalapura is the only the town of the
status of census town and has a strategic location in the World Heritage Area on the
south of the river Tungabhadra.

The importance of the town in the L.P.A is that it is very near to a number of notified monuments both of national and state importance and houses nearly 30% of the population of the Local Planning Area.
