Festung Galle through time

Galle 2012–2020 10 photos of this spot

10 recent photographs taken at the same spot in Galle, spanning 2012–2020. Have an older picture of it? Add it and start this spot's timeline.

This photograph shows part of the old town within Galle Fort on Sri Lanka's south coast. The fort's layout and many of its buildings date to Dutch rule in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Fort, Galle 80000, Sri Lanka 2012 This photograph shows part of the old town within Galle Fort on Sri Lanka's south coast. The fort's layout and many of its buildings date to Dutch rule in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Fort, Galle 80000, Sri Lanka 2012 A street inside Galle Fort reflects the layered history of Portuguese founding and later Dutch fortification that shaped this coastal town. The fort has remained continuously inhabited since colonial times.

Fort, Galle 80000, Sri Lanka 2012 This 2012 photograph shows a view within Galle Fort, a fortified coastal town in southern Sri Lanka first built by the Portuguese and later expanded by Dutch colonists, now recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Fort, Galle 80000, Sri Lanka 2012 Galle Fort, the Dutch-era fortified town on Sri Lanka's southern coast, is pictured here in a 2012 photograph showing its colonial-period streets and buildings, part of a walled settlement that has survived largely intact.

Fort, Galle 80000, Sri Lanka 2012 Taken in 2012, this image captures a corner of Galle Fort, a fortification built by Dutch colonial engineers atop earlier Portuguese defenses along Sri Lanka's southwestern shoreline, its ramparts still enclosing the old town.

Fort, Galle 80000, Sri Lanka 2012 This 2012 photograph shows part of Galle Fort's old quarter, a walled settlement on Sri Lanka's coast that has been continuously inhabited since the Portuguese and Dutch colonial eras and today draws visitors from around the world.

Fort, Galle 80000, Sri Lanka 2012 Photographed in 2012, this scene is set within Galle Fort on Sri Lanka's southern coast, a fortified town whose street layout still reflects its 17th-century Dutch colonial planning and continues to shape daily life there.

Fort, Galle 80000, Sri Lanka 2012 This 2012 image shows a street within Galle Fort, the historic walled town in southern Sri Lanka recognized by UNESCO for combining European fortification design with South Asian urban and architectural traditions.

Festung Galle 2016 Galle Fort, built by the Dutch in the 17th century on the foundations of an earlier Portuguese fortification, encloses the old town of Galle on Sri Lanka's southern coast. It is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its fusion of European architecture and South Asian traditions.

SL Galle Fort 2020 Another January 2020 view inside Galle Fort, Sri Lanka, whose ramparts and colonial-era streets have been preserved largely intact since Dutch rule in the 17th and 18th centuries, when the fort served as a major Indian Ocean trading post.