ROMANCE BEHIND MOUNT LAVINIA HOTEL

When I did a history lesson back in 2009 at school, my teacher thought us about a governor who came to Sri Lanka named Sir Thomos Maitland. what lead her to tell us this amazing love story between the governor and a gypsy girl named Lovina Aponsuwa who was half Sri Lankan and half Portuguese, which was the birth story of a grand old Hotel in Sri Lanka, Mount Lavinia Hotel. That was the first time I wanted to visit this hotel. Fortunately I got a chance to visit it and to research about it and its history and the secret romance, for one of our history lessons at college. Following is the presentation board we did for this which was a group assignment.