Kandy

Nowhere is Sri Lanka's rich diversity more evident than in Kandy. The colonial rulers called it Kandy for Kanda in Sinhala, meaning a hill. The capital of the Kandyan kingdom in the 16th century and the seat of much of Sri Lanka's culture this royal city was occupied by the British when the last Kandyan king Sri Vickrama Rajasinghe was captured by them in 1815.

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