A curated guided day through Colombo’s most significant architectural and artistic layers – from the colonial grandeur of the Fort district and the art nouveau and Indo-Saracenic buildings of Pettah and Slave Island, to the contemporary gallery spaces and design studios that have emerged across the city’s creative neighbourhoods.
Full Day
Colombo Fort Colonial Architecture
A guided walk through the Fort district’s most significant colonial buildings – the Old Parliament, the President’s Secretariat, the Colombo Dutch Period Museum and the General Post Office.
Jami Ul-Alfar Mosque
One of the most visually striking religious buildings in Sri Lanka – a red-and-white candy-striped mosque in the heart of Pettah built in 1909, blending Indo-Saracenic and Moorish architectural styles.
Lionel Wendt Art Gallery
Sri Lanka’s foremost contemporary art and theatre venue, housed in a mid-century modernist building and showing rotating exhibitions of Sri Lankan and international contemporary art.
Geoffrey Bawa Architecture Tour
A guided exploration of buildings designed by Geoffrey Bawa – Sri Lanka’s most celebrated 20th-century architect and a foundational figure in tropical modernist design – including the Parliament complex and the Seema Malakaya.
Contemporary Art and Design Spaces
A visit to Colombo’s emerging creative district galleries, design studios and concept stores, which represent a genuinely exciting dimension of the city’s cultural character that most visitors overlook.
