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Walk through a 400 year old gateway and enter the cosmopolitan hub of cultural cool down south. The ravages of time, colonial rule - even a tsunami, have not affected this 16th century marvel. Cobbled streets lined with quaint shops, chic cafes and giant trees, stunt divers leaping off ancient ramparts barely missing the rocks below, literary festivals drawing global authors and crowds of book lovers. Amidst all this, ordinary life also goes on inside this incredible Unesco World Heritage Site.
Galle Fort was built in 1588 by the Portuguese; fortified by the Dutch from 1649 onwards.
There are 14 bastions - don't miss the Moon bastion with the old clock tower and
the Flagrock bastion where the divers are.
Sri Lanka’s oldest breadfruit tree is at the Akersloot Bastion .
The Groote Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) was built in 1640.
The iconic lighthouse is the oldest in Sri Lanka (built by British in 1848).
