Narapadu Old Dutch Watch Tower (Mannar)
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The tower located in Narapadu in Mannar District, Sri Lanka is an old watchtower built by the Dutch. History
During the period between 1658-1796, most of the coastal areas in Sri Lanka were controlled by the Dutch and they built this tower on Mannar Island to be used as a watchtower (Asanga & Nishantha, 2018). Tower
The brick-built tower is about 10 m tall and has been erected on a quadrangle foundation which is about 4.5 m in length and width (Asanga & Nishantha, 2018). The tower is circular in shape and gets smaller as it rises from the bottom to the top. The diameter of the bottom part of the tower is about 4 m (Asanga & Nishantha, 2018). The tower can be entered through an arched shaped entrance of about 2 m tall and 80 cm wide (Asanga & Nishantha, 2018). A spiral staircase runs upward till more than half of the tower. The upper part of the tower has been made of coral stones (Asanga & Nishantha, 2018). A protected monument
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