Staged alongside the Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka, the Art Trail has art shows, open houses and artists’ tours and makes a ‘living canvas’ of Galle FortGalle is a gateway to explore the island ...

Before sunrise, grab your sarong and swimmers and follow the swirling beams of the old city lighthouse to the ancient citadel’s hidden beach on Galle Fort’s Hospital Street. Walk across the ramparts’ ...

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 ...

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 the ...

Discovering a 400-year-old colonial hotel in Sri Lanka that oozes charm and style Amangalla, Galle Fort, Sri Lanka Most flights from Dubai to Colombo arrive in the wee hours of the morning, but book a ...

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England could be the last team to take on Sri Lanka at its famed Galle stadium, considered one of the world's most picturesque cricket grounds, when they tour in November. This is because the stadium ...

Last year, I was horrified to realise that I was a tourist in my country of birth. My husband Charlie and I were in Sri Lanka, shuffling along the centuries-old walls of the Galle Fort amid the sea of ...

History and nostalgia came to the fore when the Galle Fort branch of the Commercial Bank of Ceylon was reopened in its original location this week in one of the last events of the Bank’s 100th year.