“Welcome
To The Spirit Of Java”, this slogan will be display and made available as a
traveling exhibit to visitor throughout the city, the large city , which took a
second place after Semarang, and offering visitors quality
heritage attractions and experiences. Center for craft and design, it’s a “living history” city of Central Java.
Surakarta
palace is a marvelous place within fifty four hectare area and disposes by
three main walls, so called Beteng, and the tourists love to hang out in this
place time and again, Betengs of Palace use based upon its function, the first Beteng is the place, where the royal family take a rest, the second Beteng is
the home living for the royal servants,so–called Abdi Dalem, and the third or
the last Beteng is the place for public society, for example is the museum of
surakarta palace. As we visit now, this museum has two spot, which both of them
have different functions.
As
we enter this sacre location, all the visitors have to put off their foot wear.
Regardless of the dirt, because this place is also full of beach sand. From
parangtritis, a symbol of the relationships between Susuhunan Pakubuwono and Kanjeng Ratu Kidul.
As
we arrive to the sacre place of the surakarta palace. We’ll encounter a stage
tower, namely sanggabuana. This tower, obviously used for meditation, by the King of Surakarta. In order to make contact with Kanjeng Ratu Kidul. As
directly, not
far from the stage tower of Sanggabuana, we’ll see a Veranda,called Pendopo Ageng Sasono Sewoka, this Veranda is usually used as a place to perform The Great Traditional Royal Ceremony by the King, in every tuesday kliwon of the Javanese Calendar. Here, Bedaya ketawang will present by nine girls, and the
girl is charming and admirable. There is a widespread belief that the number
of the dancers are added, by the emerge of Kanjeng Ratu Kidul.
Next
to the veranda, We’ll find a room called Sasono Hondrowino, this place is used
for a guest house to serve the honorable guest, who come to visit the palace.
As
we visit, The Museum of Art And Culture History, We’ll see the cultural
inheritance, such as a chair which is given by the Chinese Emperor. And this
three dimension picture, of the second Queen of Pakubuwono X, it’s called 3
dimension. Because the queen eyelid. Is focus on whole direction. Apart from
this, there is a room which show a certain kind of horse carriage, used to
carry the honorable guest, in the past.
Here, We can also see, the original culture description, such as traditional wedding ceremony of Surakarta palace, namely basahan. All steps are described as clearly as possible. Through the relief and another support equipments, for instance is this horse which used to carry the bridegroom, whose direct descendant of the King. Whereas the bride is carry by this sedan chair.
Some
of the art inheritance as leather puppets. Begin from sorts of leather puppet until the leather puppets show. We can also find the intelligence evidence of
our ancestor within the symbol of education in these sculptures. Although, today this city is no longer rules by the King himself. This region still
based around hereditary monarchy and become the tourist destination city of art and culture.
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