Kandy a heritage city

5 August 2010 06:13 am

Kandy is to be developed into a “walking heritage city” and President Mahinda Rajapaksa has allocated Rs. 500 million for the mega project, the government information department said.

In 1592 Kandy became the capital city of the last remaining independent kingdom in the island after the coastal regions had been conquered by the Portuguese. Several invasions by the Portuguese and the Dutch (16th, 17th and 18th century) and later by the British (most notably in 1803) were repelled.