Kalpitiya Fort Kalpitiya Fort is an old Dutch fort situated in Kalpitiya, Puttalam District, Sri Lanka. History
The history of the Kalpitiya Fort runs back to the 17th century. The fort was built by the Dutch when they control most of the coastal areas of the island during the period 1658-1796. Designed in 1666, the construction work of the fort was completed in 1676. The fort is said to be built on the spot where the Portuguese had a stockade and a Jesuit chapel (Mandawala, 2012).
However, with the advent of the British, the fort was lost to the Dutch. The British used the fort mainly for trading along with the fort in Mannar.
After the British, the fort was neglected for many years until it was turned into a Sri Lanka Navy base for training and operational activity during the period of the Sri Lanka Civil War [(1983-2009) Mandawala, 2012]. The fort
The fort has been constructed at the entry point to the Puttalam lagoon. It is nearly square in shape with four bastions on each corner. Of them, the t…
