Lawang Sewu Semarang

page in Lawang Sewu

Lawang Sewu is a relic of ancient Dutch building that was built in 1904. Originally this building for corporate headquarters rail (tram) Dutch colonizers or Nederlandsch Indishe Spoorweg Naatschappij (NIS). Building three-story art deco (1850-1940) was the work of renowned Dutch architect, Prof. Jacob F Klinkhamer and BJ Queendag.

Tugu Muda

Tugu Muda is a historic monument Semarang built to commemorate the Battle of Five Days in Semarang against the Japanese invaders. Tugu Muda describes about fighting spirit and patriotism Semarang residents, especially teenagers who are persistent, self-sacrificing in high spirits to maintain independence of Indonesia in general and defend the city of Semarang in particular.

Tempat Peristirahatan K.A.R. Bosscha

Bosscha tomb

Bosscha Home

Who has not ever heard Bosscha observatory, telescope building that has the greatest lens in the world at that time? certainly almost all our peers know, because it had become one of your favorite movie set childhood first. what else if not adventure Sherina :) place named after its founder, KAR Bosscha. This is also the brilliant one who founded the Technische Hugeschool or the now more familiarly called Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) and a place to hold the Merdeka Building Bandung Asian-African Conference.

Magelang History Tours

1.       Museum H. Widayat

Museum H. Widayat is an art museum located between the temple and the temple Borobudur Mendut. There you can view a range of works, especially from the Indonesian Arts Academy Students / ASRI (Institut Seni Indonesia / ISI).

2.       Ketep Pass

Location Ketep Pass topped Mount Sawangan (halfway between Mount Merapi and Mount Merbabu). Ketep Pass is at an altitude of 1200 meters above sea level and wide area is approximately 8000 square meters. He was bebrbagai Ketep Pass area of ​​facilities such as the Museum of Volcanology, mini cinema, Binocular, the Court Panca Arga, Sentry view.

3.       Museum Diponegoro

This museum used to be the place where Prince Diponegoro in talks with the General De Kock. There is also no relics of Prince Diponegoro.

4.       Museum Jend Sudirman

To commemorate his services, then on May 18, 1967 Sudirman Commander museum founded by the Regional Commander Major-General Yasir Hadibroto Diponegoro VII. Museum located in the Sudirman Ade Irma Suryani C.7 Magelang. The building is a classic European-style architecture in the area of ​​1329 m² with building area of ​​201 m².

There are also relics Disan paintings General Sudirman

Pagoda Buddhagaya Watugong

Pagoda Buddhagaya Watugong

Pagoda Avalokitesvara which is located in the Watu Gong (Ungaran direction of Semarang), right in front of this Diponegoro Military Command Headquarters, was recorded as the tallest pagoda in Indonesia as high as 45 meters. Pagoda was inaugurated in 2006 and has seven levels, more and more small upward. This pagoda currently do not have a ladder to climb up so it can not be climbed.

At each level laid Goddess Kwan Im statue known as the Goddess of Mercy. In front of the pagoda was statue of Kwan Im smiling welcome. Therefore, many also call this a pagoda pagoda Kwan Im.

Right inside the pagoda there is a statue of Bodhisattva Avalokiteswara. In front of the statue is usually visitors do Tjiam Shi. A ritual to determine the fate of mankind. How to shake a few sticks of bamboo that has been marked by one of them fell. You can ask the clerk there to read it.

Before climbing the stairs towards the pagoda, we could see the statue of Gautama Siddhartha sat under the Bodhi tree. The tree with the Latin name Ficus religiosa is also grown in the area Borobudur. Bodhi tree was planted in 1955 by Narada Mahathera.