Fly over Galle, a beautifully preserved Dutch colonial fort city on Sri Lanka’s southern coast, where red-tiled rooftops, ...

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.

Staged as part of Sri Lanka’s Galle Literary Festival, the historic town’s Art Trail offers exhibitions, open houses and artists’ tours to provide an ‘alternative experience’ for visitors.

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Galle Fort in Sri Lanka is one of the largest and oldest European-era forts in South and Southeast Asia, built by the Portuguese in 1588 and later fortified by the Dutch before British occupation.

The Galle Fort Hotel is a charming small boutique hotel recently opened to great acclaim and located in atmospheric Galle Fort. With only 14 bedrooms, the interior is out of this world, and so is ...

After the resounding success of its 2025 edition, the Galle Literary Festival is set to return for its 13th year from 22–25 ...

Juliet came to Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami and immediately fell in love, both with the island and with her now husband, whose family owns an old Galle Fort establishment.

The Galle Literary Festival is promoting Sri Lanka’s varied arts scene. Its Art Trail includes exhibitions, artist walks and open houses and turns Galle Fort into a “living canvas”. an antique shop ...

Restaurant owners operating inside Galle Fort voice similar concerns about the unexpected ways in which a distant war is affecting their own, civil-warred scarred island.