A complex masterpiece of irrigation engineering design, Sigiriya's ... high monolith in the distance. Sigiriya, an ancient rock fortress and former royal palace, is one of Sri Lanka's most visited ...

Built in the fifth century, Sri Lanka’s Sigiriya fortress attracted the attention of British archaeologists in the 1800s, who were amazed by its leonine rock art ... The design of the garden ...

Sigiriya (Lion's rock) is a large stone and ancient rock fortress and palace ruin in the central Matale District of Sri Lanka, surrounded by the remains of an extensive network of gardens ...

are mostly poems addressed to the female figures depicted on the rock face above the Mirror Wall, a highly polished protective wall forming part of the ascent to the palace on the summit of the ...

Not that this stopped him from building his palace on the top of a 200-metre outcrop of rock, the Sigiriya fortress in central Sri Lanka. The last part of the climb to his refuge was accessed only ...