This magnificent hybrid of Indian and British architecture was copied from the plans of an Indian Maharaja’s palace designed by a London architect. Richmond Castle in Kalutara is a two-storied building with 15 rooms. All the rooms are naturally air-conditioned. Richmond Castle has 99 door frames, 38 windows and one ...

The huge dagoba of the Gangatilaka Vihara is not especially old – it was built in the 1960s – but it is notable since its hollow interior is supposedly the only one of its kind in the world. Inside its cavernous echoing interior there is a mini-dagoba surrounded on each of the four sides by a golden Buddha, while ...