Closest Cities :
Mumbai Distance travelled from Mumbai : 185 Kms via roads Route : Mumbai-Panvel-Pen-Kolad-Mangaon-Mhasla-Srivardhan
Pune Distance travelled from Pune : 165 Kms via roads. Route : Pune-Tamhini-Kolad-Indapur-Mangaon-Mhasla-Srivardhan.
Kolhapur Distance travelled from Kolhapur: 250 Kms Via roads. Route : Kolhapur-Karar-Satara-Mahabaleshwar-Poladpur-Mahad-Veer-Mangaon-Mhasla-Shrivardhan.
Attach Map indicates road to shrivardhan from mumbai and from Pune.It also gives the various places of interests around shrivardhan. Note: Foreign tourists may refer the google earth road map from .Google map has updated their road map to shrivardhan recently
Historical Background:
Srivardhan (taluka) is an ancient place of historical importance and is mentioned as being visited by Arjuna Pandav in his pilgrimage.It is well known place for traders in the past.In sixteenth and seventeenth centuries under Ahmadnagar and afterwards under Bijapur shrivardhan was a port of consequence. It appears in the accounts of leading European travellers as Ziffardan. In 1538 Dom Joao de Castro described it as with little water in the pier at low tide but inside large and roomy. [Primeiro Roteiro da Costa da India, 47.] It is notable as the birth-place of Balaji Visvanath , the first Pesva (1713-1720) who was the desmukh of the town. In 1713 Srivardhan was one of the sixteen fortified places in the Konkan ceded by Balaji Visvanath Pesva to Kanhoji Ahgre of Kolaba.Balaji was the first Peshwa of Maratha Empire appointed by Chhatrapati Shahu.