Taman Sari Water Castle is a palace complex which actually consists of several buildings (not all of these buildings are in the water) and its location is still in the palace Ngayogyakarta the environment. In English, better known by the name of "Perfume Garden" or "Fragrant Garden", because a lot of fragrant flowers planted this garden environment.
Taman Sari in Yogyakarta is not only the royal family recreation park in those days, but have various functions such as Camouflage area against his enemies, and is a system of defenses, but also as a place of meditation for the King, the making of batik performed by the King's concubines and daughters of King, a military training ground for the royal army, and there's more.
Taman Sari in Yogyakarta was founded in 1758 that the idea originally from Prince Mangkubumi (later titled Hamengku Buwono I) and Raden Ronggo Prawirosentiko (Regent Madiun) as an architect, while Demang Tegis (the original people who got a degree from the Portuguese empire) as an expert structure.
There are several elements that influence the complex architecture of Taman Sari, including the influence of Hindu and Buddhist, Javanese and Islamic, Chinese, Portuguese and European style, can be seen in some parts of this building.
Taman Sari in Yogyakarta has two main gates, namely Gapuro Agung (which is at the West) and Gapuro Panggung (which is at the East, which is currently (in 2007) is used as the main entrance to the complex location of Taman Sari).
Form of gate or "Gapuro" it is very beautiful, which is the original style of Java, on the detail of the original motive Gapuro Java is like stilasi of tendrils of plants, birds, tail and wings of an Garuda Bird.
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