The Royal Palace Park is a small urban and recreational park situated on the top of a hill southwest of Nuwara Wewa in Kandy City, Sri Lanka.
Wales Park (Kandy)
The Royal Palace Park , also known as Wales Park or Wace Park (Sinhala: වේල්ස් උද්යානය), is a small urban and recreational park situated on the top of a hill southwest of Kirimuhuda in Kandy City, Sri Lanka. History The hill where the park is situated was known in British times (1815-1948) as Castle Hill due to the belief that it was the site of a palace built for Konappu Bandara who reigned in Kandy by the name King Vimaladharmasuriya I [(1591-1604 A.D.) Briggs, 2018]. Later, a lakeside terrace was built there by King Sri Vikrama Rajasinha (1798-1815 A.D.), the last king of Sri Lanka (Briggs, 2018). It was remodelled and converted into a park in 1880 under the acting Colonial Secretary Herbert Wace (1851-1906) and opened in 1905 (Briggs, 2018; Denham, 1912). The Park The park extends into an area of 2 ha (4.9 acres). Presently, a Japanese artillery gun captured in Burma (present Myanmar) during World War II (1939-1945) is preserved in a small shelter on the park premises (Briggs, 2018). R…
