Nagarjunasagar Tourism: Hotels, Reviews, Packages, Photos, Maps, Experience, Itinerary

Nagarjuna Sagar is a small town in Hyderabad layered in antiquity and was known as Vijayapuri or the City of Victory in ancient times. The town is a prominent Buddhist site and derives its name from the Buddhist saint, Acharya Nagarjuna. The city was ruled by the Satavahanas, before it became the capital of Ikshvaku rulers in 3^rd century BC. Situated between the cities of Guntur and Hyderabad, Nagarjuna Sagar is famous for its massive irrigation project on River Krishna which was completed in 1969. One of the earliest hydro-electric projects in India; Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is 124 m high and a kilometre long, making it the tallest masonry dam in the world. At present, the Nagarjuna Sagar area has three settlements, Vijayapuri or V .P South, Pylon and Hill Colony.