Sigiriya water gardens and fountains
Jardines hidráulicos y fuentes de Sigiriya
- Date
- c. 477-495 · confidence medium
- Place
- Sigiriya, Matale, Central Province, Sri Lanka
- Credited to
- King Kashyapa I
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Ponds, underground channels and stone fountains fed by gravity and pressure from elevated reservoirs, which still gush during the rainy season. They are among the oldest surviving landscaped gardens in Asia.
What it led to
- landscape urbanism in Sri Lanka
- pressure-conduit engineering