Sigiriya, Sri Lanka, came in at No. 1. advertisement. ... Cazorla’s main attraction is a charming old town featuring Yedra Castle, also known as the “Castle of the Four Corners.” ...

Sigiriya, an ancient rock fortress and former royal palace, is one of Sri Lanka's most visited and best-known sights, attracting just more than one million visitors in 2019.

Thousands of suicide warriors attacked visitors at Sigiriya, sacrificing their lives to repulse a potential threat to their ‘castle’; the honeybee colonies hanging on the magnificent rock face. The ...

World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

Sigiriya has been crowned the world’s most welcoming city for 2025 by Booking.com, based on over 360 million of its verified customer reviews. The online travel agency (OTA) ...

It gets its name from a giant lion gateway (above) that the king built about halfway up the climb; ‘Sigiriya’ comes from the Sinhalese word ‘Sihagri’, meaning Lion Rock.. The ruins of Kasyapa’s palace ...

The Sigiriya Project Office says that more than 250,000 foreigners have visited Sigiriya so far this year.The largest number of foreign tourists who visited Sigiriya this year are from Russia. Among ...

Sri Lanka’s tourism sector has reached a major sustainability milestone, with Sigiriya being officially declared as the country’s first sustainable destination. ..