Galle Tours & Holidays

Galle Fort is a UNESCO World Heritage site that is the best preserved colonial sea fortress in all of Asia. The oldest parts date to the 1650s, though it is believed by some scholars to be Tarshish of the Old Testament. The fort itself passed through the hands of the Portuguese, Dutch and then the British and shows architectural influences from all three as well as much later art deco and art nouveau. In the late afternoon the fort begins to slip into a centuries old lethargy and the visitor can almost feel the ghosts of soldiers, sailors and merchants who lived here over the hundreds of years emerge from the brick work.