Airport Road, Bangalore
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Old Airport Road is a major road in Bangalore
. It was renamed from Airport Road after the new Bengaluru International Airport was opened. It begins from the junction of Trinity Church Road and Victoria Road and goes to HAL Bangalore International Airport. Beyond that, the road officially becomes Varthur Road, but ever since the real estate
boom started around 2003, builders have started calling the stretch between the Airport and the Marathahalli
Outer Ring Road as Airport Road. Even so, due to the high significance of this road it has achieved due to its high accessibility for reaching Whitefield.
Air Force, the five star hotel Hotel Leela Palace
, Diamond District Apartments, Nilgiris supermarket
, Manipal Hospital, etc. It also has Total Mall, which houses a temple with a huge statue of the Hindu
god Shiva
, complete with a cave-like "yatra
" at the rear which was built in the year 1995. There is a Papa Johns's pizza and chilis and a church called The Potter's house Church which is above them.
, Kodihalli
, Murugeshpalya
, Konena Agrahara, and Vimanapura
etc.,.
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
. It was renamed from Airport Road after the new Bengaluru International Airport was opened. It begins from the junction of Trinity Church Road and Victoria Road and goes to HAL Bangalore International Airport. Beyond that, the road officially becomes Varthur Road, but ever since the real estate
Real estate
In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...
boom started around 2003, builders have started calling the stretch between the Airport and the Marathahalli
Marathahalli
-Schools at Marathahalli:you can have good schols like Bagdevi Vilas School,Rayan International School,KIDZEE etc.-References:...
Outer Ring Road as Airport Road. Even so, due to the high significance of this road it has achieved due to its high accessibility for reaching Whitefield.
Landmarks
Some prominent landmarks on Airport Road are Command HospitalCommand Hospital
Command Hospitals are major military hospitals in India. There is not more than one in each Command. The Indian defence services have five Command Hospitals...
Air Force, the five star hotel Hotel Leela Palace
Hotel Leela Venture
The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts is an Indian luxury hospitality group founded in 1986 by Captain C. P. Krishnan Nair, who named it after his wife. Currently The Leela - as it is commonly referred to, is a group of seven luxury palaces and hotels, located in Mumbai, Goa, Bangalore, Trivandrum,...
, Diamond District Apartments, Nilgiris supermarket
Supermarket
A supermarket, a form of grocery store, is a self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments...
, Manipal Hospital, etc. It also has Total Mall, which houses a temple with a huge statue of the Hindu
Hindu
Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...
god Shiva
Shiva
Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...
, complete with a cave-like "yatra
Yatra
' , in Hinduism and other Indian religions, generally means pilgrimage to holy places such as confluences of sacred rivers, places associated with Hindu epics such as the Mahabharata and Ramayana, and other sacred pilgrimage sites. Tīrtha-yātrā refers to a pilgrimage to a holy site, and is...
" at the rear which was built in the year 1995. There is a Papa Johns's pizza and chilis and a church called The Potter's house Church which is above them.
Localities Around Old Airport Road
Other roads and localities
Some of the major roads that branch out of the road are the Indiranagar 100 Feet Road, Inner Ring Road, HAL Wind Tunnel Road and Suranjandas Road. The areas that it runs through are DomlurDomlur
Domlur is a small township located in the eastern part of Bangalore city in India. Earlier it was known as Bhagat Singh Nagar, but for some unknown reasons, it is better known as Domlur...
, Kodihalli
Kodihalli, Bangalore
Kodihalli is a locality in the eastern part of Bangalore. It starts from 80 feet Indiranagar , Jeevanbhima Nagar junction and extends up to Leela Palace on Old Airport Road. Recent years have seen extraordinary real estate growth of this area owing to its proximity to offices on Old Airport Road....
, Murugeshpalya
Murugeshpalya
Murugeshpalya is a locality in Bangalore. It lies near the Old Airport Road, nearby HAL airport and to the south of Jeevanbheemanagar. This place happens to be a residential area. The largest Apartment happens to be Salarpuria Splendor. The Visveswaraya college is located opposite to the Salarpuria...
, Konena Agrahara, and Vimanapura
Vimanapura
Vimanapura is an eastern suburb of Bangalore in Karnataka in India. It is so called because it is near Bangalore HAL airport. Vimanapura houses many of the HAL offices and the HAL hospital...
etc.,.