21/06/2018
Welcome to Visit Ancient Palace of Sigiriya..........
Sigiriya is located in heart of the island between the towns of Dambulla and Habarana. The complex of fortress includes remnants of a ruined palace, surrounded by an extensive network of fortifications, vast gardens, ponds, canals, alleys and fountains.
According to Modern resources Sigiriya as a post historical archeology turning point of Ravana. Sigiriya may be the Alakamandava (the City of the Gods) that was built up before 50 centuries ago by King Kuwera who was the half-brother of Ravana (Ravan) as described in the Ramayanaya.
But kingdom of Sigiriya was made by King Kashyapa according to Main written literature resource Mahawanshaya. King Kassapa was the only king who did reconstruction and maintained the Chiththakuta as done by the king Ravana. Since 3th century BC the rocky plateau of Sigiriya served as a monastery. In the second half of the 5th century king Kashyap decided to construct a royal residence here.
Sigiriya has Powerful environmental plane and urban planning sites of the first millennium, the plan combined concepts of symmetry and asymmetry to intentionally interlock the man-made geometrical and natural forms of the surroundings. The main entrance is located in the northern side of the rock. It was designed in the form of a huge stone lion, whose feet have survived up to today but the upper parts of the body were destroyed. But main entrance of Sigiri someone introduced as a foot of a bird in King Rawana.
The famous wall paintings in the Chiththakuta (Later Sigiriya) can be treated as displaying about the Sinhala Land. The Ravana Watha explains that the picture of blue coloured lady represents the Yakka Tribe and other ladies represent the Tribes of Naga (Cobra), Deva (Divine) and Gandabhbha (Odors) and the beautiful flowers show the unity of the country.
Mirror wall is one of the most striking features in Sigiriya. It was made to see his reflection by polished wall. The Mirror wall is painted with inscriptions and poems written by the visitors of Sigiriya. The most ancient inscriptions are dated from the 8th century.
There was an amazing and creative archelogy technical plan in Sigiriya. The gardens of Sigiriya are among the oldest landscaped gardens in the world. Sigiriya has water gardens, cave and boulder gardens, and also terraced gardens. They are located in the western part of the rock and are with a complex hydraulic system, which consists of canals, locks, lakes, dams, bridges, fountains, as well as surface and underground water pumps. Sigiriya is an unmatched combination of urban planning, water engineering, horticulture and arts.
After King Kashyapa death Sigiriya again became a Buddhist monastery until the 14th century, when it was abandoned. The palace and fortress complex are recognized as one of the finest examples of ancient urban planning. Considering the uniqueness of Sigiriya UNESCO declared it a World Heritage site in 1982.
