傍晚时到达高尔城堡 Galle Fort. 这是荷兰人在海角边修的军事要塞,类似的海边城堡在欧洲很多。城堡上有钟楼和灯塔,绿草覆盖,城堡的台阶下,压着当年的监狱和多少冤魂。城内是荷兰的建筑,保护的好。蓝天衬着红白色教堂,我以为回到了美国圣安东尼。 当晚,住在巴瓦设计的灯塔酒店,见上文“巴瓦设计”。从高尔古城一...
Another UNESCO World Heritage Site, Galle Beach is an iconic location where people canenjoy water sports and rest on the beach. Galle Fort beach is located just bordering the Galle Fort. This is a very popular beach in Sri Lanka, and in this beach, a lot of tourists visit just so that ...
The military campaign that ended with the Dutch laying siege to the Galle Fort and thereafter overrunning it, was led by Willem Jacob Coster who was the first Dutch Governor of Ceylon. With the King of Kandy Rajasinghe II getting exasperated with the doings of the Portuguese he opportuned th...
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The Galle National Museum is established in the oldest Dutch building of the Galle fort, constructed in 1656. To inform the public on the traditional cultural heritage of Southern Sri Lanka, the Department of National Museums established this museum and was opened to the publ...
As a result, Japan needed a land path through Southern and Central China to get to the border of Fort-Bayard and Tonkin, where Japan would have a much stronger position to threaten the French. And so the Japanese military by October 1941 made the capture of Guangxi and Southwestern ...
(1) H.A.J. Hulugalle, author ofCeylon of the Early Travelers,is cited by Jayantha Jayewardene inElephants in Sri Lankan History and Culturefor the following: “In 1507 the Viceroy of India sent a gift of a small elephant, imported from Ceylon, to King Manuel of Portugal. After seven ...
and received the revenue. The people of the land were not involved in any aspect of this trade, nor did they benefit directly from it.ColomboandGallebecame prominent ports of external trade; smaller ports in the southwest became centres of coastal and Indian trade. Almost all the traders were...