History

The Galle Fort, or Dutch Fort as it is additionally known, is a fortress initially worked by the Portugese on the Southwestern shore of Sri Lanka. The underlying strongholds, which were worked in the late sixteenth century, were very fundamental. Anyway the fortification experienced broad adjustments in the seventeenth century by the Dutch, making it one of the most significant archeological, compositional and noteworthy landmarks to illutrate the European impact in South East Asia between the sixteenth and nineteenth hundreds of years. As per an announcement by UNESCO the site was perceived as a World Heritage Site for its one of a kind composition of a urban outfit which represents the collaboration of European engineering and South Asian conventions from the sixteenth to the nineteenth hundreds of years which is the criteterion number four for such acknowledgment.