Western Province

 Western Province 

* About 

         The Western Province is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the country. The provinces have existed since the 19th century but did not have any legal status until 1987 when the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka established provincial councils.

* The best places to visit in Colombo

• Gangaramaya Temple

• Galle Face Green

• Jami Ul-Alfar Mosque

• Viharamahadevi Park

• Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya

• Colombo Lotus Tower

• Dutch Hospital - Shopping Precinct

• Colombo City Center

• Kalutara

• Pahiyangala

• Negombo Beach

• LeisureWorld Water Park

• Water World Kelaniya

• Browns Beach, Negombo

* Colombo History

             Colombo was the capital of the coastal areas controlled by the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British from the 1700s to 1815 when the British gained control of the entire island following the Kandyan convention. From then until the 1980s the national capital of the island was Colombo.

         Traveller Ibn Battuta who visited the island in the 14th century, referred to it as Kalanpu. Arabs, whose prime interests were trade, began to settle in Colombo around the eighth century AD mostly because the port helped their business by the way of controlling much of the trade between the Sinhalese kingdoms and the outside world. It was popularly believed that their descendants comprised the local Sri Lankan Moor community, but their genetics are predominantly South Indian.

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