Sigiriya or Lion Rock,(a World Heritage Site),
is Asia’s best preserved city of the first
millennium, showing complex urban planning around the base of a rock that
rises 200 meters above a forested plain. Built in the 5th century, a series
of moats, ramparts and amazingly engineered water gardens spreads out on two
sides of the rock, the remains of a pair of giant stone lion’s paws
still guards the staircase leading to the summit where once stood the royal
palace. The world famous frescoes of Sigiriya depicts graceful bare-breasted
maidens whose beauty inspired ancient graffiti which are written on a Well
polished wall known as the ‘mirror wall’
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