Galle

Galle is one of the beautiful areas which situated in south west part of Sri Lanka with most attractive coast. The area is considered as low country, wet zone and district divided to 10 electronic divisions. Ancient romans coins were founded in several areas of Galle and it shows the Galle was the world trade center in 16^th to 19^th centuries. After the 14^th century, Galle attracted by various foreign countries, such as Portuguese, England, Netherland. So more than 300 years Galle were controlled by them and it was affected to cultural and Economic changes of Galle.  Most archaeological places in Galle can be identified as built on King Kirthi Shi Rajasinghe’s time and some places were built by foreigner who controlled the area.

Galle Fortress

This is the main historical place in Galle which is situated in the middle of the Galle town and it generates huge arrogance for Galle Town. This fortress was built by Portuguese as a temporary fortress for protect from Sinhalese attacks. When the 1619, fortress converted as a permanent and more than 60 soldiers used for protections for fort. Fortresses were acquired by the Dutch in 1640. After that they modified fort and built lot of buildings according to Dutch architecture. When the start with the 17^th century fortress were acquired by English. Fortress spreads more than 92 acres. It has been announced as a World heritage sites in 1974 by UNESCO.

Special places which situated insides the Fortress

• Dutch museum

This building was built at 1656 CE and it is considered as the oldest building in Galle fort.  Currently, this building is used for Galle National Museum.

• Galle New Oriental Hotel

Most attraction place for tourists. This hotel is famous for the delicious foods among the foreigners who visit the Sri Lanka.

• Roman Catholic Church

This was built as according to the Dutch architecture and shown as a shape of Corus. The church and a   campanile which is situated in church nominated as the national heritage by department of archaeology, Sri Lanka.

Rumassala Mountains

Mountain is located in near the Galle town and it’s consists with huge biodiversity. There is have a measurement pillar on the top of the mountain and it was built by W.Bartan in 1875. Mountain located in height in 250 feet on sea level.