Galle Old Town and Dutch Fort

Galle Old Town and Dutch Fort

Also known as Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications

Year

1588

Type

landscape

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Galle is the fortified colonial old town on the rocky promontory at the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, founded as a Portuguese fortified port in the sixteenth century, captured by the Dutch in 1640, and built up by the Dutch East India Comp …

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