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

Galle’s Dutch Fort declared an archeological reserve by the UN since 1969 is also a UNESCO world heritage site. Enter the Fort through one of the two main entry points- the Main Gate built by the ...

A view of Meera Masjid and the lighthouse inside Galle Fort Photo: Deepa Alexander The spray stings my eyes as I lean over the yellow ramparts of the Moon Bastion.

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.

Now, in peacetime, the fort’s 14 bastions offer a panoramic vista of the sea from its coastal power position.

The Main Gate to Galle Fort was built by the British in 1973 to handle heavier traffic into the old city. This part of the wall, mostly heavily fortified with massive ramparts facing the landside was ...

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.

One of our fond memories of the Galle Fort is sitting on the grassy ramparts of the Moon bastion and watching a match in the utterly picturesque cricket stadium sprawled between the fort and the sea.

Two main bastions of the historic fort in Ballarpur town have collapsed due to torrential rains lashing the area since three days. The protective wall ...

With more people wanting to see the ‘fort’ on the Fort Kochi beachfront that saw the footfall of three colonial powers — the Portuguese, the Dutch and the English — history buffs are ...