Galle

It is a city with a colonial past located in the southwest of Sri Lanka. It is believed that the current city of Galle was the port of ancient Tharsis, to which the Hebrew King Solomon sent to look for the ivory and peacocks indicated in the Bible. It was known as Cale before the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th century, when it was the main port on the island of Ceylon. It had its heyday in the 18th century, before the arrival of the British who promoted the development of Colombo. It is a mandatory site to visit since its cultural and ethnic fusion framed by urban planning and architecture with a clear European brand, make Galle an exotic and peculiar place. For 200 years it became Sri Lanka's main port, a stopover for ships between Asia and Europe. Something that only changed with the arrival of the English in 1796, who opted for Colombo and the port protected by large breakwaters that they built to dock larger and larger ships. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1988.