Galle Face
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Running along the sea front south of Fort, the grassy sweep of Galle Face Green is one of the city s few open public spaces, bounded to the north by the modern towers of Fort and to the south by the venerable facade of the Gaffe Face Hotel. The greenwas created by Sir Henry Ward, governor from 1855 to 1860 (an easily missed memorial plaque to him stands halfway along the promenade, in which the green is "recommended to his successors in the interest of the Ladies and Children of Colombo") and such is its place in the city's affections that even the railway line south - which elsewhere runs straight down the coast - was rerouted inland to avoid it. The Fort end of the green is bounded by the ponderous Neoclassical Secretariat, now dwarfed by the Galadari hotel and the World Trade Center towers, which rise behind it. Statues of independent Sri Lanka's first four prime ministers stand in front; in the centre is a purposefully mustachioed D.S. Senanayake, the first post-independence PM, who died in 1952 from injuries sustained when he fell from his horse on the Green.
Running along the sea front south of Fort, the grassy sweep of Galle Face Green is one of the city s few open public spaces, bounded to the north by the modern towers of Fort and to the south by the venerable facade of the Gaffe Face Hotel. The greenwas created by Sir Henry Ward, governor from 1855 to 1860 (an easily missed memorial plaque to him stands halfway along the promenade, in which the green is "recommended to his successors in the interest of the Ladies and Children of Colombo") and such is its place in the city's affections that even the railway line south - which elsewhere runs straight down the coast - was rerouted inland to avoid it. The Fort end of the green is bounded by the ponderous Neoclassical Secretariat, now dwarfed by the Galadari hotel and the World Trade Center towers, which rise behind it. Statues of independent Sri Lanka's first four prime ministers stand in front; in the centre is a purposefully mustachioed D.S. Senanayake, the first post-independence PM, who died in 1952 from injuries sustained when he fell from his horse on the Green. 
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