Grandeur of Kraton (Palace) Jogja

Kraton (palace) situated in the center city of Yogyakarta Sultanate of Yogyakarta. More than 200 years ago, this place is a swamp with a name Pacetokan Bannerman, who later built by Prince Mangkubumi into a rest house with a name occurred in 1955 Ayodya.Pada Giyanti agreement that it divides the two kingdoms of Mataram into the government under Sunan of Surakarta Kasunanan Pakubuwono III and Yogyakarta Sultanate under the government of then Prince Mangkubumi titled Sultan Hamengkubuwono I.

Ayodya Pesanggrahan subsequently built into the Yogyakarta Sultanate Palace. Sultan's Palace stands majestically overlooking the north with the front page of the plaza (the field) who in the past used as a place to collect the people, the exercise of war for the soldiers, and the ceremony venue. On the southern edge of North Square, there is a porch front of the palace, commonly called Exhibition. This place Sri Sultan, courtiers and palace officials witnessed the soldiers training or some traditional ceremony held in the market - places north.

More in the yard where the land is deliberately high (so-called Siti Hinggil), there are palace hall, called wards Manguntur Tangkil. In this place, tourists can watch the trial situations ancient palace of government, which was exhibited by doll - doll complete with oversized clothes. Palace as a center of government and the palace as a residential lane and courtiers, separated by a courtyard in front of the so-called northern or Kemandungan Keben page, because the trees grow here in the year 1986 declared the Government of Indonesia as a symbol of peace, in commemoration of World Environment Day International.

In this environment there is the Palace side in Sri page Manganti with regol (gapuro) who kept a pair Danapratopo Dwarapala: Cingkarabala and Bala Upata, Ward Traju Mas, Sri Manganti Ward who is now used to store several antique and gamelan devices from the past, which has a tunable barrel when exposed to sound. In the pages that are located more into the core, the tourists can witness the Yellow building which is the building where the Sultan collide, Prabayekso ward. Sweet ward, where the Sultan was entertaining guests - guest, Kasatriyan environment as a place to live son, the son of the Sultan who is not married. The last place is off limits to tourists.

Kraton is a radiant source of Javanese art and culture can be witnessed through the beauty of architecture with an entrancing ornaments. Every day the Palace is open for tourist visits starting at 08.30 to 13.00, except on Fri, at the Palace is only open until o'clock; 11.00.

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