Mount Lavinia Hotel Beach Hotel Colombo Sri Lanka Hotel
Mount Lavinia Hotel Colombo in Sri Lanka offers beach holidays at a luxury beach hotel with a romantic history. The hotel is a converted governors mansion sited on a headland. In 1805 the island of Ceylon was under British rule. Enter Sir Thomas Maitland a scion of the aristocracy. Appointed governor of Ceylon he fell in love with Lovina Aponsuwa, dancer and a girl of mixed Singhala and Portuguese blood. Beautiful she was to have captured the heart of the governor.
The governor build his residence in an area known as Galkissa, now Mt Lavinia on the southern edges of Colombo. For 7 years Lovina flitted through a tunnel which began in her garden and ended in the wine cellar of the governors mansion. In 1811 the idyll ended when Sir Thomas left Ceylon. Other governors came and went and Sri Lanka gained independence. Down the years the Governors House became a holiday home for foreign visitors and eventually one of the finest hotels in Sri Lanka. What of the old edifice remains? In fact most of it, imparting colonial spaciousness to the hotel which remains the favourite choice of lovers for weddings and honeymoons. See picture gallery
     
 

 
     
   
     

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