{"id":687,"date":"2019-10-01T14:48:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talesofcey.wpengine.com\/?page_id=687"},"modified":"2019-10-07T16:32:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:32:58","slug":"colombo-heritage-history-and-culture-experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/destinations\/colombo\/experiences-in-colombo\/colombo-heritage-history-and-culture-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombo Heritage, History and Culture Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has a rich heritage, thanks to its history of over 3000 years. The city of Colombo however, has a much shorter history. It grew in prominence only after the Portuguese arrived in the city in 1505 AD, and turned it into a major colonial outpost in the South Asian region. Colombo\u2019s colonial history is not just written in the history books, but also in the landscape of the city. Here are some interesting places to visit of you are fascinated by the history and cultural heritage of foreign lands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has a rich heritage, thanks to its history of over 3000 years. The city of Colombo however, has a much shorter history. It grew in prominence only after the Portuguese arrived in the city in 1505 AD, and turned it into a major colonial outpost in the South Asian region. Colombo\u2019s colonial history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":580,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-687","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/687\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}