Itinerary | Architecture Tours - Option I - Year Round |
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Duration Info | DAY - 3 (Bentota) |
Accommodation Info | |
Location | BENTOTA |
Meals Info | Bed & Breakfast |
Hotel | Avani Bentota |
Image | 1.jpg |
Id | 254 |
Created | 4/24/20, 2:22 PM |
<ul><li>Breakfast at the hotel.</li><li>Visit Lunuganga Estate, the country house of Geoffrey Bawa and Brief Garden designed by Bevis Bawa</li><li>The Brief Garden designed by Bevis Bawa, a well-known Sri Lankan artist and the older brother of renowned architect Geoffrey Bawa includes a profusion of tropical trees, structures, and homoerotic sculpture.<br></li><li>The country house of Lunuganga estate belonged to renounced architecture, late Geoffrey Bawa now maintain by the Geoffrey Bawa trust is a fascinating display of Bawa’s architectural vision. The estate was a cinnamon garden during the Dutch period and a rubber plantation in the British period. Geoffrey Bawa brought this 15 acres of land in 1949 and developed it as a tropical version of the European renaissance garden. Bawa was cremated and ashes were buried there.</li><li>Dinner and overnight stay at Avani Bentota.</li></ul>