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The  Terraced  Gardens

        The third garden form at Sigiriya, the terraced gardens have been fashioned out of the natural hill at the base of the Sigiriya rock by the construction of a series of rubble-retaining walls, each terrace rising above the other and running in a roughly concentric plan around the rock.

       The great brick-built staircases with limestone steps traverse the terrace gardens on the west, connecting the pathways of the boulder garden to the precipitous sides of the main Sigiriya rock itself. From here, a covered ambulatory or gallery provides access to the belly of the rock to what is in effect the uppermost terrace, the ‘Lion Staircase plateau’ with its chambers, buildings and pavilions and the great lion itself.

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