Gampola (Sinhala: ගම්පොල, Tamil: கம்பளை) is a town located in Kandy District, in Sri Lanka's Central Province.

Gampola was made the capital of the island by King Buwanekabahu IV, who ruled for four years in the mid-fourteenth century.

The ancient stone scripts (Shila Lekhana) of Lankathilaka temple helps to reveal a considerable amount of vital information regarding the Gampola era.

Located 1,087 m (3,566 ft) above mean sea level, Ambuluwawa mountain hosts a hill top tourist spot that houses a biodiversity complex celebrating environmentalism and cultural and religious diversity.

A notable feature of this complex is a large winding tower resembling a Buddhist stupa, which is located on the mountain peak.

Due to the geomorphology of the Gampola and its vicinity, which characterised by steep hills stand from plain, it was declared as a landslide prone area.

However, with its flat terrain with being a catchment area of River Mahaweli, our region has become highly used in agricultural purposes both in traditional (paddy, chena, home gardens) and industrial plantations (majorly tea).

[3] The prehistoric studies of Sri Lanka were initiated around in 1885 by surface collections of quartz and chert artefactual implements secured by John Pole (of Scarborough estate of Maskeliya) and by E. Ernest Green.

Contemporarily to these studies, Mr Rober Bruce Foote could establish a considerable account about the Indian pre history who may probably first discovered stone implements from Gampola.

Eventually, he sent these remains and Pole's collection to the Madras museum, ventured as 'Neolithic' stone tools of Sri Lanka.

But the concern on the pre historic Gampola is considerably lacking while comparing to the other regions of Sri Lanka, it can be rich with evidence as well as other areas.

manikara-Date patike manikara Cuda sapatike Meaning - [The cave] of lord Sumana, of Tissa, of the female lay devotee Sumanā, of the female lay devotee Tissalā, of the householder Dutaka, of the potter Sona, and of the ivory worker Sumana.

Though these EBI clearly shows the human habitation and Buddhism in the region at the time, evidence about since then can only found here and there until 13th century AD.

[7] However, comparing to the other capitals of the country, this one was neither highly populated nor developed, but could provide a resistant for an attack by its natural settings.

Though its value as the kingdom lasts with a brief period of few kings, it considerably influences on contemporary political status, which was actually complicated as well as blurred.

However, he was merely a figure head as the real ruler was Nissanka Alakeswara who even defeated Tamil power of Arya Chakravarti, the leader of contemporary Jaffna.

[8] Ambuluwawa Kanda - A 3515 ft high mountain rise up at the west side of the Gampola city providing a natural shield to the kingdom at the time and today is a shelter of dying sun.

Some other sites of archaeological value are: Aludeniya, Embekke, Katarangala, Kumbaloluwa, Gadaladeniya, Niggammana, Wallahagoda, Wegiriya and Sinhapitiya.