Galle (ගාල්ල in Sinhala; காலி in Tamil) (pronounced as one syllable in English,, the same as "Gaul", and in Sinhalese, ) is a town situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, 119 km from Colombo. Galle was known as Gimhathiththa (although Ibn Batuta in the 14th century refers to it as Qali) before the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th century, when it was the main port on the island. Galle reached the height of its developmen… (More on Galle)