This sacred city was established around a cutting from the 'tree of enlightenment', the Buddha's fig tree, brought there in the 3rd century B.C. by Sanghamitta, the founder of an order of Buddhist ...

Polonnaruwa was the second capital of Sri Lanka after the destruction of Anuradhapura in 993. It comprises, besides the Brahmanic monuments built by the Cholas, the monumental ruins of the fabulous ...

The diocese covers a land area of 10,258.5 square kilometers, the diocesan territory includes Anuradhapura ... Muslims and Christians. The city also had some of the most complex irrigation systems of ...

Our next stop after Jaffna was the heart of the Cultural Triangle of Sri Lanka. The ancient city of Anuradhapura was the ...

It is the foremost of the Island’s ancient cities with extensive Buddhist monuments. South Indian invaders, lured by the city’s prosperity attacked it from time to time. The Chola king, Rajaraja I ...