Colonial History of the City

Whose city is this?

Colombo Fort was layered century by century — flag by flag by Portuguese, Dutch and British hands. Led by a curator who knows these streets as living narratives, you move through the Fort’s colonial architecture, its trade monuments, churches and counting houses — asking the questions most tours don’t: who owns these spaces now, and what became of what was built here? From the rise of Colombo Port to the market streets that grew around foreign commerce, this is the city’s complicated, still-unfolding story, told on foot.