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For hundreds of years they lived in Indonesia, including Yogyakarta, the Netherlands leaving a number of historic buildings. Those buildings are residents of Yogyakarta often called loji because of their large size with a large yard. Some of the heritage loji beauty can now be enjoyed with little cost, just down the area of the city center, starts from the intersection of Post Office. Loji oldest in Yogyakarta is located right across from Post Office, a building which is now called Fort Vredeburg. Building the castle which is often called the Great Loji or Loji Gede was built in the year 1776 – 1778, just two years ago after the founding of the Palace Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat one of the floating kingdom of Mataram.

Loji Gedung Agung

The fortress was originally named Rustenburg was allegedly deliberately incorporated in the shaft Palace – The monument to be able to monitor movements of the Palace. As a fortress, the area is equipped with a variety of Great Loji building support, such as surveillance until resting place for the soldiers. During the Great Loji still used as a fortress, there is cannon that accidentally redirected to the Palace in the standby position to facilitate firing assault. This was done so that the parties acknowledge that the Dutch Kingdom has the power. (more…)

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Ratu Boko Palace is a majestic building built in the reign of Rakai Panangkaran, one of the descendants of Wangsa Syailendra. The palace that was originally named Abhayagiri Vihara (monastery on a peaceful hill) was built for seclusion and a focus on spiritual life. Being in this palace, you can feel at peace at the same time view of the city of Yogyakarta and Prambanan temple with the background of Mount Merapi.

Ratu Boko

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Prambanan is a stunningly beautiful building built in the 10th century during the reign of two kings, and Rakai Rakai Pikatan balitung. Rose as high as 47 feet (5 meters higher than Borobudur temple), the foundation of this temple has fulfilled the desire, to show Hindu triumph in Java. This temple is located 17 kilometers from the city center, in the middle area that is now a beautiful park. The legend that Javanese people are always tell about this temple. Once, a man named Bandung Bondowoso loved Roro Jonggrang.

Prambanan temple

Because of his love, Jonggrang asked Bondowoso make 1000 temples with statues in one night. The request was nearly fulfilled when Jonggrang asked the villagers to pound rice and to make a big fire that created an atmosphere like the morning. New Bondowoso can make the 999 statues cursed Jonggrang into the statue-1000 because he felt cheated.

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