Colombo Culture and Sights

Pure Asia: a Muslim bazaar district with its narrow streets and amazing shops. Tamil and Muslim traders dominate the picture of this colorful bazaar district. It is from the port, the railway station an...

Uhrturm, department stores, hotels are reminiscent of the British era. Probably the best preserved example of the English presence east of Suez. From the clock tower, which until 1952 served as a beacon...

The white building in classical colonial style of giant Banyanbäumen fact is in itself an attraction. In the National Museum are finds from the Pre-and Early History of Sri Lanka (Gallery II), sacred ...

After a thorough renovation, this resort on the sea again the meeting place for locals, especially on weekends and full moon days: Children can kite, parents and young people strolling, buy ice cream ...

From the Pettah leads from the Wolfendahl Street (also Wolvendaal written) by the same old Dutch quarters easily climb up on a hill. There is unmistakably the best preserved Dutch Reformed Church in t...

In the open Independence Hall, a copy of a royal audience halls of the ancient world, opened the Duke of Gloucester on 4 February 1948 the first meeting of the Ceylon Parliament. On wall reliefs are s...

In the 15-16. Century Singhalese king city, big city today (about 100 000 inhabitants.) Grows Sri Jayawardhanpura even Kotte, Colombo, together with. Archaeological excavations have so far only a few ...

In the quiet inner courtyard of the over 300 year old building in the heart of Pettah, since 1982 the Museum of the Dutch era, permit grave slabs and their inscriptions draw conclusions about the crac...