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希卡杜瓦是斯里兰卡西南部的一个海滨度假小镇。它以其强大的冲浪和海滩而闻名,包括棕榈树点缀的希卡杜瓦海滩,两旁都是餐厅和酒吧。希卡杜瓦海滩对面的浅水区是希卡杜瓦国家公园的栖息地,这里是珊瑚保护区,也是海龟和外来鱼类的栖息地。在内陆,Gangarama Maha Vihara 是一座装饰着手绘壁画的佛教寺庙。

加勒区简介

加勒是一座位于斯里兰卡西南端的城市,距离科伦坡 119公里。加勒是欧洲人在南亚和东南亚建造的设防城市的最好例子,它展示了欧洲建筑风格与南亚传统之间的相互作用。加勒堡世界遗产,也是欧洲占领者建造的亚洲现存最大的堡垒。

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斯里兰卡的标准,加勒是一个相当大的城镇,人口为91,000人,其中大多数是僧伽罗人。还有大量的斯里兰卡摩尔少数民族,特别是在堡垒地区,他们是定居在加勒古港的阿拉伯商人的后裔。

南方省简介

斯里兰卡南部省是一个由加勒马塔拉汉班托塔地区组成的小型地理区域。自给农业和渔业是该地区绝大多数人的主要收入来源。

南方省的重要地标包括亚拉和乌达瓦拉维国家公园的野生动物保护区,圣城 卡塔拉玛以及蒂萨玛哈拉玛基林达和加勒等古城。(尽管加勒是一座古老的城市,但在葡萄牙入侵之前,几乎没有任何东西可以幸存下来。)在葡萄牙时期,有两位来自迪克威拉的著名僧伽罗诗人安达雷和来自马塔拉德尼皮蒂亚的加贾曼·诺娜作曲关于普通人的诗。

About Galle District

Galle is a city situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, 119 km from ColomboGalle is the best example of a fortified city built by Europeans in south and Southeast Asia, showing the interaction between European architectural styles and south Asian traditions. The Galle fort is a world heritage site and the largest remaining fortress in Asia built by European occupiers.

Galle is a sizeable town, by Sri Lankan standards, and has a population of 91,000, the majority of whom are of Sinhalese ethnicity. There is also a large Sri Lankan Moor minority, particularly in the fort area, which descend from Arab merchants that settled in the ancient port of Galle.

About Southern Province

The Southern Province of Sri Lanka is a small geographic area consisting of the districts of Galle, Matara and Hambantota. Subsistence farming and fishing is the main source of income for the vast majority of the people of this region.

Important landmarks of the Southern Province include the wildlife sanctuaries of  the Yala and Udawalawe National Parks, the holy city of Kataragama, and the ancient cities of Tissamaharama, Kirinda and Galle. (Although Galle is an ancient city, almost nothing survives from before the Portuguese invasion.) During the Portuguese period there were two famous Sinhalese poets called Andare who was from Dickwella and Gajaman Nona who was from Denipitiya in Matara District, composing poems on common man.