EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. View over Lake Kandy towards a pavilion (1913)
1913 Kandy, Sri Lanka
This 1913 photograph looks across Lake Kandy toward a lakeside pavilion. The lake was dug on the orders of Sri Wickrama Rajasinha, the last king of the Kandyan kingdom, shortly before the British annexation of 1815.
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