Kathaluwa Walawwa
Kathaluwa Walawwa, built around 1625, was home to elite families, later a courthouse, and now a hotel. It’s known for its colonial architecture.
Kathaluwa Walawwa Kataluwa Walawwa , also known as Atadahewatta Walawwa or Atadagewatta Walawwa or Kataluwa Maha Walawwa (Sinhala: කතළුව වලව්ව), is a historic Walawwa building located near Kataluwa Railway Station in Galle District, Sri Lanka. History Originally built in around 1625, the Walawwa was the ancestral home of the J.P. Obeysekara family and then the members of the Jayawardane family (Abeyawardana, 2004; De Silva & Chandrasekara, 2009). Don Owen Ferdinandez, the ancestor of the Obeyesekara family who belonged to a Portuguese family in Europe, came to Ceylon and bought the land in Kataluwa and constructed a Walawwa, which was later known as Atadahe Walawwa since he grew 8,000 coconut plants on the land where the house was erected (De Silva & Chandrasekara, 2009). The Walawwa was renovated and modified in 1944 (De Silva & Chandrasekara, 2009). It at one time functioned as a Court House to hear cases at Talpe Pattu in Galle District. Some parts of the building were parti…