Tag: Heritage

Most cities, towns and villages have a distinctive identity. With Negombo it is fish. Mixed with the tang of salt, ...

There's more to Sri Lanka than sun, sea and sand. The "round trip" is a tourist tradition in Sri Lanka. ...

A mythical bird one of the carvings at Embekke temple. During the Kandyan era of our country's history, old traditions ...

Royal Day Recalled by Maureen Seneviratne The Portuguese buildings occupied the area of the President' House. Colombo, a royal city? ...

Details of the grand parade By Kalpana Isaac. Photos: Suresh de Silva For two weeks at the end of July ...

A Part of our Heritage Nalini De Lanerolle. Photographs by Suresh de Silva From about 500 B.C. till the advent ...

Christine Jayasinge. Photographs: Suresh de Silva. Who was the British soldier (circa 1815) whose braided and frogged felt coat, tails, ...

Lucien Rajakarunanayake Determining the origins of the irrigation works of the ancient cities of Sri Lanka provides a constant challenge ...

Vilma Wimaladasa One of the charms of the island is its infinite variety, wrote Leonard Woolf more than eighty-odd years ...

Sarasi Wijeratne Walk down any of the more populous streets of Colombo, or any other town in Sri Lanka, and ...