The water gate and secret door to the fort is located in Srirangapatna in Mandya district of Karnataka state. This water gate or secret door was the secret entrance to enter Srirangapatna Fort.
This place is 132 km from Bangalore. It is about 28 km from Mandya city and only 500m from Srirangapatna.
It’s a secret gate to enter Srirangapatna Fort. People called this gate name as water gate because to confuse other dynasties who want to capture the dynasty . gun point also here to shoot outersiders .first time British know this secret gate then they were captured fort by this gate in 1799 and Tippu killed by them.
