A sacred pil­grim­age site for 22 cen­turies, this cave monastery, with its five sanc­tu­ar­ies, is the largest, best-pre­served cave-tem­­ple com­plex in Sri Lan­ka. The Bud­dhist mur­al paint­ings (cov­er­ing an area of 2,100 m² ) are of par­tic­u­lar impor­tance, as are the 157 stat­ues.