Galle Face Hotel in Colombo was a meeting place for the elite of the colonial era.

It is a Dutch villa built in 1864 and has hosted notable guests including Indira Gandhi, Richard Nixon, Prince Philip, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, Anthony Chekhov, Duke Ellington, Harrison Ford, Ernesto Che Guevara, Steven Spielberg, John Paul II, Adam Asnyk, Yuri Gagarin, Roger Moore, Ursula Andress, Scarlett Johansson, Laurence Olivier, Sting, Sade and others.