Hidden gems: Sights & Landmarks in Anuradhapura

Discover the city's hidden treasures—remarkable spots that are relatively undiscovered but offer exceptional experiences. Our selection criteria? A rating of 4.5 or higher with fewer than 150 reviews. Explore these lesser-known yet outstanding places that promise a delightful visit in Anuradhapura. This list contains 47 places from Sights & Landmarks category.

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Swarnamali Stupa [රුවන්වැලි සෑය] image
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Swarnamali Stupa [රුවන්වැලි සෑය]
Historical landmark
👍👍 The Ruwanwelisaya is a stupa and a hemispherical structure containing relics, in Sri Lanka.It's also known as "Sawarnamali chaitya"... NAMO BUDAHAYA! 🌼🌻
5.00 (45 reviews) (~2.28 km from centre)
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Ruwanweli Maha Seya Viewing Point
Pagoda
👍👍 Itz my favorite place in this universe ❤️
5.00 (35 reviews) (~2.17 km from centre)
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Safety Tours and Travels
Tour operator
👍👍 We spent one week with Sudath driving through Sri Lanka and had a really great time. He is super nice and knowledgeable and has very good recommendations for restaurants and hotels. We felt very safe driving with him, he is a good driver and speaks English really well.
5.00 (16 reviews) (~3.09 km from centre)
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Travel To Sri Lanka
Travel agency
5.00 (2 reviews) (~4.09 km from centre)
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Navin Lanka Tours
Tour operator
👍👍 Him I'm Suresh from England. 2019.07.28 I was engaged with Navin Lanka tour. It was amazing experience. We travel 10 days together. We was take a amazing experience (whale watching, dolphins watching, wildlife safari, kaudulla national park, udawalawa national Park,world heritage site, village saf...
4.90 (38 reviews) (~1.03 km from centre)
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Stupa - Vijayaramaya
Historical landmark
4.90 (25 reviews) (~6.77 km from centre)
Basawakkulama(බසවක්කුලම) image
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Basawakkulama(බසවක්කුලම)
Tourist attraction
👍👍 Basawakkulama Wewa, also known as Abhaya Wewa, is a reservoir which is situated in Anuradhapura. It was built by the great king of Anuradhapura, Pandukabhaya during his reign from 437-367 BC. The purpose of building Basawakkulama Wewa was to provide ample water to Anuradhapura. The tank also gets th...
4.90 (24 reviews) (~2.85 km from centre)
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Abhayagiriya Buddha Mandiraya
Buddhist temple
👍👍 Historical site
4.90 (23 reviews) (~4.28 km from centre)
Relic Shrine of Abhayagiriya - අභයගිරිය ධාතු මන්දිරය image
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Relic Shrine of Abhayagiriya - අභයගිරිය ධාතු මන්දිරය
Historical landmark
👍👍 ප්‍රධාන ආවාසයට නිරිත දිශාවෙන් ඊටම වෙන් කරන ලද ප්‍රකාර බැම්මකින් වටවූ චතුරස්‍රාකාර භූමි භාගයක මධ්‍යයේ මෙය ඉදිකර තිබේ. මන්දිරය වටා කුඩා චතුරස්‍රාකාර පරිවාර ගොඩනැගිලි 4 කි. මෙම භූමියට ඇතුළුවීමට පැවති ස්ථානයේ දෙපස ඇති සෘජුකෝණාස්‍රාකාර ගොඩනැගිලි, මුර කුටි විය හැකිය. ධාතු මන්දිරය ඉදිකර ඇත්තේ උස් චතුරස්‍රා...
4.90 (13 reviews) (~4.1 km from centre)
Dalada Maligawa Anuradhapura - අනුරාධපුර පුරාණ දළදා මාලිගාව image
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Dalada Maligawa Anuradhapura - අනුරාධපුර පුරාණ දළදා මාලිගාව
Historical landmark
👍👍 A past Temple of Tooth Relic in the Anuradhapura sacred city. Not many people visit but a place you must visit to see its glory still.
4.80 (142 reviews) (~2.93 km from centre)
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Abayagiriya Raja Maha Viharaya
Buddhist temple
👍👍 This is second largest stupa in Sri Lanka.It has been built by King Wattagamini Abhaya.Abayagiriya vihara is situated in the sacred city of Anuradhapura , North central province in Sri lanka.🇱🇰 But there is no "Chudamanikya" in the stupa yet.
4.80 (133 reviews) (~4.26 km from centre)
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Mahamevnawa Dhammachethiya Buddhist Monastery - Anuradhapura
Buddhist temple
👍👍 Namo Buddhaya!. Visited the place for a B'fast Alms Giving. The facilities even for the devotees are amazing ,adequate wash rooms and bathingfacikity. The kitchen to prepare alms giving is of modern equipment as same as a kitchen in a fivestar hotel.
4.80 (103 reviews) (~4.98 km from centre)
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Sweet Home Tourist Rest, Cooking Classes & Tours
Guest house
👍👍 We enjoyed so much our stay at Sweet Home tourist Rest with Nilu and hks family. They were incredibly generous, cooking for us traditional Sri Lankan plages and giving us so many information about the places to visit, as well as offering private tours. The room and the place were very comfortable an...
4.80 (64 reviews) (~3.15 km from centre)
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Rathna Prasadaya | මුරගල
Historical landmark
👍👍 Guard stone Ancient ruins of Sri Lanka
4.80 (54 reviews) (~4.49 km from centre)
රුවන්වැලි මහා සෑ වැලි මළුව image
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රුවන්වැලි මහා සෑ වැලි මළුව
Buddhist temple
4.80 (27 reviews) (~2.21 km from centre)
Samadhi Statue 3 සමාධි පිළිමය 3 image
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Samadhi Statue 3 සමාධි පිළිමය 3
Historical landmark
👍👍 This Samadhi Buddha statue is one of the most sacred and high quality works of art created during the Anuradhapura period and can be seen on the Wata Vandana Road in the grounds of the Abhayagiri Vihara in Anuradhapura. The sculptor has made a tremendous effort to portray the great personality as w...
4.80 (20 reviews) (~4.41 km from centre)
King Dutugemunu Pillar දුටුගැමුණු ශිලා ස්ථම්භය image
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King Dutugemunu Pillar දුටුගැමුණු ශිලා ස්ථම්භය
Historical landmark
👍👍 Our proud of history. Thats one created king Dewanampiyathissa.
4.80 (19 reviews) (~2.36 km from centre)
Padalanchana Stupa පාද ලාංඡනය ස්තූපය image
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Padalanchana Stupa පාද ලාංඡනය ස්තූපය
Buddhist temple
👍👍 පද ලාංඡන ස්තූපය - අනුරාධපුරය ථූපාරාම දගැබට නැගෙනහිරින් දක්නට ලැබෙන මෙම ස්තූපය පද ලාංඡන චේතිය ලෙස හඳුන්වයි. ක්‍රි.පූ.119 - 109 අතර කාලයේ රජකම් කළ, සද්ධාතිස්ස රජුගේ පුත් ලජ්ජිතිස්ස විසින් ඉදිකරවන ලද මෙම ස්තූපය, වංශකතාවන්ට අනුව, බුදුරජාණන්වහන්සේ ගේ ශ්‍රී පාදය පිහිට වූ ස්ථානයක් වසා ඉදිකරවා තිබේ. මෙය ශිල...
4.80 (17 reviews) (~2.73 km from centre)
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Square Stupa Abhayagiri Monastery
Historical landmark
👍👍 Abayagiriya Stupa The second largest of the stupas in Sri Lanka, Abhayagiri Stupa has been built by King Vattagamini alias Valagamba (89-77 BC). This extends up to an extent of nearly 200 hectares. According Bhikkhu Fa-hsein who visited Sri Lanka in the fifth century there had been three thousand r...
4.80 (13 reviews) (~4.37 km from centre)
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