Where is Sigiriya?
In the high plains in the north of Sri Lanka there is a granite stone at 500 feet (150 meters), higher than the surrounding forest. Solid red rock called "Lion Mountain" that dominates the landscape there.
Stone is a central concern in Sigiriya, the capital of King Kassapa I in the century-5. King of the castle be built on a stone that encircle the city in addition to the basic stone. Sigiriya well as terraced gardens and the irrigation channel detail, including the canal, the water under the container land, and water fountains.
Sigiriya other views are stunning from the giant stone lion, which was built in the bottom of one corner of the rock. A ladder to the top of the mountain was in between the lion and the paw to the mouth. Now the only remaining leg-foot and some of the first rung of the lion.
Approximately half way on the stone wall there is a mirror layer of shine and smooth. Wall is covered in graffiti of visitors who come to the location of the century to century, and 6-to-14. Many form of poetry that any posts and any posts, including the oldest in the Sinhalese language.
Nearly two dozen paintings from the walls of the remaining 500 original paintings that decorate the walls is a giant stone. Wall-painting is known as "The Maidens of the sky"-to show her feminine figure that many people believed is a reflection apsara (figures from heaven). Painting a wall is painted with a coloring agent mixed with wet clay and make the area was obtained international recognition for its natural beauty and the unique skills of the technical of he painters.
Sigiriya into a monastery after Kassapa Buddhists died, but eventually abandoned. That place has become debris in the year 1895 when the archeologists found the United Kingdom, HCP Bell.
Sigiriya in many parts of the restoration has been in place and the hundreds of thousands of people visit each year. Sigiriya made Cultural Heritage by the United Nations in 1982. (source : kompas)
