Vredeburg Harvest Guest

YOGYA - Manager Museums Vredeburg target number of tourists visitingYogyakarta during 2011 reached 180,000 people. "Every year the number of visitors increased. In 2009 reached 103,662 people, and increased in 2010 reached 163,231 visitors," said museum staff Vredeburg Yogyakarta, Suryanto, in Yogyakarta, Sunday (3 / 7).

Involve Gamelan Festival Reporters Open YGF

YOGYA - Marking the opening of the mat Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival (YGF), a steering committee involving all the arts and culture desk reporters in the city ofYogyakarta to open the event which took place in the Concert Hall Taman Budaya Yogyakarta on Thursday (7 / 7) evening.

Technically, the middle of the show, the announcer asked all the journalists to go onstage. Then one by one they are asked to ring the gamelan.

Malioboro ,Yogyakarta City

YOGYAKARTA CITY malioboro for this year's Festival will be heldon July 31 through August 1, 2010. In accordance with the show,this annual event will be centered around Malioboro

Malioboro Festival is a festival based culture. This festival will beenlivened many cultural attractions that are not only followed by theJogjakarta itself, but also followed by students from 10 provinces inIndonesia.

According to the Head of the Yogyakarta Provincial Tourism Office, Tazbir, SH. M. Hum, Privileges Malioboro Festival this yearis to raise back malioboro.

"A variety of cultural attractions, music, dance and literature will be displayed in malioboro Festival", he added.

Tugu Yogyakarta

Tugu Yogyakarta is an obelisk or tower that is often used as a symbol of the city of Yogyakarta. This monument was built by Hamengkubuwana I, founder of the Yogyakartapalace. The monument is located at the intersection of Jl Jenderal Sudirman and Jl. ThisMangkubumi Prince, has symbolic value and is a magical line that connects the southern ocean, Kraton Yogyakarta and Mount Merapi. During meditation, it is said the Sultan of Yogyakarta at the time to use this monument as a benchmark the directionfacing the top of Mount Merapi.

This monument is now one Yogya tourism objects, and often known as the? monumentwhite pal? (pal also means the monument), because the color of paint used since thefirst is white. Pal monument is elliptical with a small ball and a pointed tip at the top.From the palace of Yogyakarta when we look to the north, then we will find that Jalan Malioboro, Jl Mangkubumi, this monument, and Yogya Kembali Monument Road willform a straight line exactly with the direction to the top of Mount Merapi

Kraton Ngayogyakarta

Kraton Ngayogyakarta
Address: Duchy, Kraton
Description:
Palace or in the original language is called the Palace is located in downtown Yogyakarta. Palace means a place where kings and queens live, or in other words that mean the same Kadaton.
In learning about Javanese culture, this sense has a very deep philosophical meaning. Architecture of this palace is Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono I own, which is the founder of the Sultanate Ngayogyakarta. His expertise in the field of architecture appreciated by Dutch scientists - Dr.Pigeund and Dr.Adam who regard it as the "architect of the civil Pakubuwono II Surakarta".
Sultan's Palace was founded in 1756 by Prince Mangkubumi (Hamengkubu lane I) as the center of the kingdom Ngayogyakarta. At first, the location of the Palace is now a swamp area called Bannerman Pacethokan, which later developed into a pesanggrahan Ayodya.
Palace building stretches from north to south. The front page of the Palace called the plaza north and the backyard is called the square south. The design of this building shows that the Palace, Monument and Mount Merapi are in one line / axis is believed to be a sacred thing. In the past Sri Sultan regular meditation on a place on the shaft before leading a meeting or give orders to subordinates.
Parts of the palace from north to south are: Gate Gladag (is gone), Arch Pangurakan nJawi / out, gate Pangurakan Lebet / in, North Square, Exhibition Complex, Complex Siti Hinggil, Gate Brojonolo, Complex Kamandhungan Lor / north , Gate Sri Manganti, Sri Manganti Complex, Gate Donopratopo, Kedhaton Complex (the official residence and the center of the palace), Gate Kamagangan, Kamagangan Complex, Gate Gadhung Jasmine, Complex Kamandhungan South / South, Gate Kamandhungan, Sapit Urang / pamengkang, Siti Hinggil South Complex / south (now called Sasana Hinggil), South Square, the Great Gate Nirbaya (Usually called Plengkung Gadhing).


All around the Palace and included a defense system consisting of the wall / walls.
Yogyakarta Palace Complex is opened every day for the general public from 07:30 to 13:00 pm, except on Fridays until 12.00 pm. For admission tickets will be collected with the value: Adults: USD $ 2000.00, USD 1000.00 if you want to photograph and Rp 2,000.00, if you want to record.

About Yogyakarta

YOGYAKARTA (which is often spelt and referred to in different ways such as Yogya, Jogja or Jogjakarta) is  the premier tourist city in Java, Indonesia. Yogya is an old city that keeps a lot of hidden charm in it and it has a unique provincial government as it is the only province in Indonesia which is lead by the Monarchy. The Sultan of Yogyakarta is the King of Yogyakarta Palace and he serves as the elected Governor of the province.

Yogya is a city with outstanding historical and cultural heritage and was the centre of the Mataram Dynasty and it has numerous thousand-year-old temples as an inheritance of the great ancient kingdoms.

Yogyakarta is famous for being the centre for Indonesian higher eduction and has many students from all over Indonesia, Asia, Africa and Europe. There are four state universities established in Yogja as well as private universities which are modern and have a high standard of education facilities.

Yogya balances life from the past and present with relative ease and is referred to as the soul of Java.  It has long been known as the cradle of Javanese culture and heritage and has been described as "Never Ending Asia", and "The Real Java".  Its residents live in harmony and have typical Javanese hospitality which makes it a wonderful city to visit.