Amaravati, India Tourism

Amaravati is small town west of Vijayawada that was once the Andhran capital and was also the site of a great Buddhist stupa built by the Satavahanas. Nagarjuna, the Mahayan monk, built the stupa at Amaravati over 2,000 years ago.

Many pieces from the stupa have been taken to the British Museum, National Museum, Kolkata and the Government