Situated about 120 km from Colombo, Galle is a historic city in Sri Lanka with deep colonial roots. The city attracts visitors year-round, but the ideal time to visit is from December to March when ...

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The beautiful capital of the Southern Province, Galle boasts of a history stretching back centuries, even before the Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial times. In the old days when Galle was a busy ...

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 Portuguese in ...

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New measures will be put into place from today, to protect the Galle Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Galle Heritage Foundation chairman Channa Daswatte said regulations passed in 2009 for the ...

“No other place in the whole island represents the trouser-wearing, cricket-watching modern Sri Lankan like Galle Fort,” says tour guide Shanjei Perumal, founder of Galle Fort Walks. Perumal leads his ...