Dutch Clock Tower

The Negombo clock tower marks the entrance of the city's colonial Dutch fort. Now unfortunately it's a place that's worth little. There are a number of barriers to access, and strong ones too. The fort was destroyed by the British when they took the city in the year 1796, and little remains of the. The clock tower in each city was generally constructed with local stone, but it lost its mechanism with the invasion and is in an area that has not been reconstructed, while tourism happens more in the northern part of the city.