Historic Site
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Galle Face Burial Site (Taj Samudra Grounds)
The land encompassing the southern end of Galle Face Green—where luxury hotels including the Taj Samudra stand today—was originally the principal 18th and 19th-century British military burial ground in Colombo. Before the exhumation and transfer of graves to Borella Kanatte in the 1860s and 1920s, hundreds of British soldiers, sailors, and colonial settlers were interred here. Night staff and guests report eerie encounters with spectral white figures and shifting shadows.