Galle Fort, a Unesco World Heritage site on the southwest coast of Sri Lanka, is a beautiful and well preserved gateway to the country’s colonial past and cultural richness. Built by the ...

Galle Fort is a historic stronghold that serves as an open-air museum showcasing Sri Lanka’s colonial history. Originally built by the Portuguese and later fortified by the Dutch in the 1600s ...

Sri Lanka has reached 100 for one at lunch on Day 3 of the first cricket test in a composed response to Bangladesh’s first-innings total of 495.

Sri Lanka can be best described as south Asia in miniature form, filled with beaches, elephants, tea plantations, curries, ...

Staged as part of Sri Lanka’s Galle Literary Festival, the historic town’s Art Trail offers exhibitions, open houses and artists’ tours to provide an ‘alternative experience’ for visitors.

The little-known coastal town of Galle is almost a Sri Lankan secret. It takes about a two-hour drive from Colombo to reach this port city that was built by the Portuguese in the 16th century when ...

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Item 1 of 5 People walk along a road in the Dutch Fort, in Galle, Sri Lanka August 17, 2024. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte/File Photo [1/5] People walk along a road in the Dutch Fort, in Galle, Sri ...

Its Old Fort, built by the Dutch in 1663, and the coastline's pristine beaches, have long attracted tourists. Tsunami effects. When the tsunami struck the city on 26 December 2004, it washed away ...

Galle’s tryst with colonial powers began with the Portuguese who constructed the iconic Galle Fort in 1588. The Dutch edged the Portuguese out in the 17th century and made ... Galle, Sri Lanka.