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The Kalutara is the one of the main city in Sri Lanka which located in Western Province and nearly 83Km away from the Katunayake Bandaranaike International Airport. The Place called “Kalutara Bodiya” is the iconic landmark in Kalutara as well as Sri Lanka. It has a great history and located on Galle Colombo main road aside with Kalu River. Kalutara bodhi tree is one of the 32 saplings of Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi which was planted during the period of king Devanampiyathissa. The history of the Kalutara bodhi tree run over until the 2nd century BC at Anuradhapura. Kalutara bodhi later becomes one of the sacred places among the Sinhala Buddhist people in Sri Lanka. After the Portuguese assumed control over the control of Maritime Provinces of Sri Lanka in the sixteenth century, the site of the Kalutara Bodhiya was changed over into a fortification most likely because of the vital significance of its area. Kalutara Bodhi location was used as an administrative location by Portuguese, the Du...

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.