In the surroundings of the famous temple town of Srirangapattana are many places of historic value like the Darya Daulat Bagh and the Jamma Masjid. The construction of Darya Daulat, the royal retreat, initiated by Hyder Ali, was completed by his son Tippu Sultan. About 223-year-old Jamma Masjid was also built by Tippu Sultan at Srirangapattana, the capital of Mysore province during his reign.

Darya Daulat Bagh, the summer palace of Tippu Sultan, is on the southern bank of River Cauvery. The two-storied summer palace, amidst eye-catching gardens and landscapes, is built in Saracenic style using teak wood abundantly. While Hyder Ali laid the foundation for Darya Daulat in 1778, Tippu Sultan got the grand palace completed in 1784 AD.

The rectangular shaped Tippu palace stands on a raised (1.5 m high) platform. There are open corridors on all four sides of the elevated platform. With canopied balconies, audience halls, arches and concealed staircases, the Tippu summer palace is said to have been built in the structural style credited to the Moghal Governor, Dilvar Khan of Sira.

Darya Daulat is famous for the art work done extensively on its walls and ceilings. The outer and inner walls have scrolls, floral patterns, and the portraits of kings and courtiers. Wall decorations include frescoes of war fields, armies in action and victory processions. These murals are considered to be rare visual documentaries of pre-independence war history.

Apart from the murals depicting the great victory of the armies of Hyder Ali and Tippu Sultan in the battle against Col. Bailee in 1780, on the eastern side of the palace walls are historic murals of the darbars attended by powerful rulers Kittur Rani Chennamma, Krishnaraja Wodeyar II, and Palegars Madakarinayaka of Chitradurga, Magadi Kempegowda and many other kings and chieftains.

The Darya Daulat Bhag of Srirangapattana had been declared a national monument in the year 1959.
The top floor of the Tippu Summer Palace is actually a museum with a precious collection of Tippu Sultan memorabilia, historic manuscripts and European paintings.

Of the museum exhibits, the famous oil painting "Storming of Srirangapattanam" by Sir Robert Porter, depicting the defeat of Tippu and the fall of Srirangapattana on May 4, 1799 is said to be a painting of great artistic value and historic importance.

Jamma Masjid
Masjid-e-Ala was built by Tippu Sultan in 1784, the year Tippu ascended the throne. After the completion of the construction of the mosque, it is said, Tippu himself performed the first time Imamath (namaz) here. The masjid has two-storied, octagonal shaped lofty minarets with eye-catching domes and pigeon holes. The walls and ceilings of Jamma Masjid are decorated with ornamental calligraphy of Persian scriptures.

One of the most interesting inscriptions is the one showing all the 99 names of Allah in the interiors of a big prayer hall of the Masjid.