Culture & Heritage

CULTURE AND HERITAGE MONUMENTS:

Name of the Place: Yogi Vemana Samadhi (Kataru Palle)

About: Kattarupalli attracts a lot of pilgrims as it is very famous for the Yogi  Vemana Samadhi situated 25 kms from Kadiri enroute Thimmama Marimanu. The journey to this place offers spectacular views of rock formations of various shapes. Yogi Vemana is widely known as peoples poet as the Telugu poems written by him are simple and colloquial, narrating the truths of one’s day to day life and social evils which are very popular among the literates and illiterates. His poems describe the subjects of Yoga, wisdom and morality. Vemana being a poet was known as the Praja Kavi

 meaning The Poet of the People.

 Co Ordinates: 14.114359649462955, 78.24900631018286

 Routes to reach:

 Yogi vemana Samadhi is near Kadiri (12 Km) well

 Connected by road from Puttaparthi   (55 Km) and  183 km 

 from Bangalore City, 161 km from International Airport, Devanhalli, Bangalore