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Market Kandy through time

Kandy 1913–2025 5 photos of this spot

5 photographs taken at the same spot in Kandy, spanning 1913–2025 — 1 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

A rickshaw carries passengers past houses and shops on a Kandy street in this 1913 image. Rickshaws were a common means of transport in Ceylon's towns before the wider spread of motor vehicles in the following decades.

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EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rickshaw ride through a street with houses and shops (1913), Kandy, 1913

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rickshaw ride through a street with houses and shops (1913) 1913 A rickshaw carries passengers past houses and shops on a Kandy street in this 1913 image. Rickshaws were a common means of transport in Ceylon's towns before the wider spread of motor vehicles in the following decades.

Kandy, Sri Lanka 2012 Kandy, the last royal capital of Sri Lanka's kings and home to the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, appears in this 2012 photograph of the hill city.

Kandy, Sri Lanka 2012 This 2012 photograph shows a scene in Kandy, the hill capital of Sri Lanka's central highlands and seat of the island's last independent kingdom, which fell to the British in 1815.

Kandy, Sri Lanka 2012 This 2012 photograph captures a further scene from Kandy, the last capital of the Sinhalese kings before British annexation in 1815, set in a valley amid Sri Lanka's central hills.

Market Kandy 2025 Kandy's central market serves the hill city that was the last capital of the Sinhalese kings before British annexation in 1815, and it remains a hub today for produce and goods from the surrounding highlands.