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TOP PLACES TO VISIT IN CENTRAL PROVINCE SRI LANKA

Posted on September 16, 2022September 16, 2022 By dishan No Comments on TOP PLACES TO VISIT IN CENTRAL PROVINCE SRI LANKA
  • Sigiriya ; Sinhagiri (8th Wonder of the World)

 

Location – Dambulla

Matale Disrict

Central Province 

Sri Lanka

 

    • This is one of the most Stunning Place in Sri Lanka  
    • Sigiriya is an ancient rock fortress   
  • Historical and Archaeological Significant Place
    • King Kashyapa selected this place as new capital
  • UNESCO declared Sigiriya as the 8th Wonder of the World

 

BY Vising Experience of Hiking 

Get to know about History

Amazing Architecture

Frescoes and Mirror wall

 

Significant features 

 

  • Mirror Wall 

 

  • This wall was so highly polished that the king could see himself whilst he walked alongside it.
  • People of all types wrote on the wall, on varying subjects such as love, irony and experiences of all sorts. 
  • Writing on mirror wall now has been banned for the protection of the old writings
  • Senarath Paranavithana deciphered 685 verses written on the mirror wall 

     

 

 

  • Frescoes 

 

  • Western face of the rock has covered by the paintings
  • The area is 140 meters long and 40 meters high 
  • There are references in the graffiti to 500 ladies in these paintings 
  • But, most of them are lost forever 
  • These frescoes are classified as in the Anuradhapura Period 
  • There are various ideas about the identity of the ladies in the frescoes 
  • Some believe that they are the ladies of the kings 
  • Others think that they are women taking part in religious observances 
  • Pictures have a close resemblance to paintings seen in the Ajantha Caves in India.  

 

 

  •  Water Gardens

 

  • The Water Gardens are built symmetrically on an east-west axis.
  • They are connected with the outer moat

 

 

  •  Sinhapadaya  


  • Boulder Gardens

 

  • Terraced Gardens 

 

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