Best places: Historical landmarks in Thiruvadi Nilai, Sri Lanka

Partially renovated fortress constructed in 1600s, popular for water & sunset views.

This monument of martyred Tamil king Cankili II atop a horse is a city landmark.

👍👍 🙂 Definitely check this place out on your travels through Jaffna! 🙌 A massive and beautiful statue of Lord Hanuman. He plays a large part in the Ramayana (Hindu mythology/ Indian epic.) King Ravana of Sri Lanka flew to India and kidnapped Lord Rama's wife (Sita.) After this, Rama wanted to get to...

The Jaffna kingdom was centered around this city before it was destroyed by the Portuguese.

👍👍 Better to have some knowledge of Tamil language if you visit this area. Google translation helped me. Friendly people. Nice place to visit.

Built in 1875, this restored clock tower in the city's center is one of Jaffna's oldest landmarks.

👍👍 Ancient lighthouse which is located near the Kankesanthurai beach. You can visit here at any time you want. No access to reach the top. You have do photo shoots around this place.

Protected ruins of a building constructed during Dutch rule of Sri Lanka & a historical landmark.

👍 It would have been nice to see this looked after to get a sense of what is at least available now. Worth a visit if you are around the area but not so much to see as of yet due to poor maintenance.

👍👍 பிரித்தானியர் ஆட்சிக்காலத்தில் இக் கலங்கரை விளக்கு அமைக்கப்பட்டதாகும்... இரவு நேரங்களில் இக்கடற்பகுதியால் வரும் கப்பல்களுக்கும், கடற்றொழிலாளர்களிற்கும் சிறந்த வழி காட்டியாக இருந்துள்ளது. இங்கு அவர்களால் அமைக்கப்பட்ட விடுதியில் அமரர்கள் கிருஷ்ணபிள்ளை விசாலாட்சி (இராமாசி) தம்பதியினர் பணிக்கமர்த்தப்ப...

👍👍 Old ancient popular jaffna's traditional building identified as old Tamil king's manthiri's home. It maybe belongs for the period of sankiliyan king. Placed near to nallur temple and on pontpedro jaffna road. A lot of visitors and tourists visit here every evenings. 300m ahead on the road there also...

👍 The Junction for the two main schools.

👍 Don't know what kind of historical place it is. But, super place. Nice to be here. Good air flow and sea.

👍 The people of Pasayoor have errected a statue of late Mr. M. G. Ramachandran in loving memory of him. He was born in Sri Lanka and moved to India after his father's death. He joined theatres to earn and support his mother, later he became a popular cinema actor and a director of films. Using cinema...

👍👍 Very Important Junction... In 1983 Srilankan "Black July" incident start from this place....