Sacred City of Anuradhapura

Local nameSacred City of Anuradhapura
LocationAnuradhapura, Sri Lanka

Anuradhapura is a major city located in the north central plain of Sri Lanka. It is the capital city of North Central Province and the capital of Anuradhapura District. The city lies 205 kilometers north of the current capital of Colombo in the North Central Province, on the banks of the historic Malwathu Oya. The city is now a World Heritage Site famous for its well-preserved ruins of the ancient Sinhalese civilisation.

While Mahāvaṃsa place the founding of the city in 437 BCE, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it a major human settlement on the island for almost three millennia and one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in Asia. It is the cradle of the Hydraulic Sinhalese civilisation, Theravada Buddhism, and the longest-serving ancient capital of Sri Lanka that has survived for 1500 years.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anuradhapura

Information at UNESCO website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/200

Address Sri Lanka

Coordinates 8°20'58.699" N 80°23'22.413" E

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