History, Best Places to Visit and Travel Guide of Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
Kolhapur, the historical ancient city along with one of the highly sacred place of Maharashtra is located on bank of river Panchaganga and surrounded by Sahyadri hill ranges. City is very popular in tourist and devotee for its holy temples, forts, royal palaces, dam, lake, wild life etc. Kolhapur is district head quarter, located in western Maharashtra and the largest city in Southern Maharashtra. Mahalakshmi temple of 9th century is most prominent and highly sacred site of India, thus Kolhapur is famous as Varansi of South. It is also mentioned in Devi Bhagwat Puran as one of the sacred place and one of the six abode of Goddess Shakti.
As per the legend, the name of Kolhapur is derive
