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Hundreds of thousands of people from across india visits Kempe Gowda tower. Ice cream man, flute sellers with colourful children's toys, balloon man can be seen walking and marching towards the tower temple. Kempe Gowda was the founder of Bangalore which was designed by him in the year 1537.He built the four towers Kempe Gowda Tower, Hudson CircleKempe Gowda Tower and Mekhri Circle to mark the outer most boundaries of Bangalore. The story goes that when Kempegowda was building his new fort, its southern gate would collapse every night. Astrologers advised him to conduct a human sacrifice but Kempegowda was reluctant to do so. And then one morning, as workers went to work on the gate once again, they found it had not collapsed. But nearby they found the of Lakshmamma, Kempegowda’s pregnant
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