International audienceThe village of Torgal (Karnataka, India) is a remarkable set of fortifications which extends from the period of Calukyas of Kalyani (XI-XIIth c.) to the Marathi period (XVI-XVIth c.) on the border between the Vijayanagara Empire and the sultanates of Deccan. The village is on bottom of valley and presents a set of three well-preserved fortified lines that make up the urban fortification. The first enclosure wall features allow to attribute to Calukyas. A second enclosure wall with square towers and two gates characteristic of the Vijayanagara period surrounds the first wall with a fausse-braye. Until the second half of the sixteenth century, Torgal is part of Vijayanagara Empire on the strategic border with the Deccan ...