Malioboro street was part of Hamengkubuwono I's original design for his new capital of Mataram. It's lays on the north of Keraton for 2.3 km till "Tugu Jogja", a monument that marked as Jogja icon. This was the route taken by the royal cortege on important occasion. The traffic on it's road is one way from the north. here lays the governor office. actually Hamengkubuwono I design this road as path of His meditation, beginning at Sitihinggil (highland) and moving north to the Tugu Monument and though the Mt. Merapi.
heading north from alun-alun (Keraton's square), one passes though a large, open gateway with guard posts on either side that mark the outer limits of the Keraton area. The gate opens onto a major intersection surrounded by colonial buildings, including the central Post Office on the south east corner (it's built in 1910), Bank Negara Indonesia on the southwest corner (built in 1923 to house a Dutch bank and insurance company) and the former society club on the northwest corner (built in 1912 and partially bombed in 1946) which currently functions as a theater and exhibition hall (now named as Gedung Senisono) where open air Saturday night concerts, drama and poetry readings are held.
heading north from alun-alun (Keraton's square), one passes though a large, open gateway with guard posts on either side that mark the outer limits of the Keraton area. The gate opens onto a major intersection surrounded by colonial buildings, including the central Post Office on the south east corner (it's built in 1910), Bank Negara Indonesia on the southwest corner (built in 1923 to house a Dutch bank and insurance company) and the former society club on the northwest corner (built in 1912 and partially bombed in 1946) which currently functions as a theater and exhibition hall (now named as Gedung Senisono) where open air Saturday night concerts, drama and poetry readings are held.
A monument on the northeast corner commemorates the guerrilla attack of revolutionary forces fighting the Dutch on March 1, 1949. Behind it stands the old Vredeberg Fort, built by Hamengkubuwono I for the Dutch between 1756-1787. It once housed 500 Dutch troops and included barracks, officers quarters, a hospital a warehouse, and a jail. In a new twist on the beating of swords into plowshares, Vredeberg has undergone renovation and is now a museum known as Benteng Budaya, literally "Fortress of Culture". The old barracks have been transformed into spacious air conditioned galleries with dioramas depicting key moments in the struggle for independence.
Opposite the fort-museum is the elegant State Guest House, surrounded by a magnificently manicured lawn planted with fruit trees and ornamented with Hindu-Javanese statues. Built in 1823 as the Dutch Resident's mansion ad rebuilt in 1869 after an earthquake, it served as the Presidential Palace when Jogja was capital of the Republic for several years during the revolution.
The Margo Mulyo Congregation Reformed Church, inaugurated in 1830 and located just north of the Guest House, is the oldest church in the city. The church known as Lodji cilik (small house). Now, the Church had renovated and named Kidul Lodji.
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