Keraton Surakarta Hadiningrat

Architectural Luxury

Surakarta Palace / keraton Surakarta was one of an exotic building in its era.

One of the architects was Pangeran Mangkubumi / Mangkubumi Prince (later become Sultan Hamengkubuwono I) who was also the main architects of Yogyakarta Palace / Keraton Surakarta.

Oleh karena itu tidaklah mengherankan jika pola dasar tata ruang kedua keraton tersebut (Yogyakarta dan Surakarta) banyak memiliki persamaan umum.

That is why it is not surprising that the standart of these two palaces (Yogyakarta and Surakarta) are almost same.

Keraton Surakarta sebagaimana yang dapat disaksikan sekarang ini tidaklah dibangun serentak pada 1744-45, namun dibangun secara bertahap dengan mempertahankan pola dasar tata ruang yang tetap sama dengan awalnya.

Surakarta Palace / Keraton Surakarta which we saw right now was no developed together in 1744 - 45, but it was developed step by step by paying attention to the standart of the land mark of the same standart in the beginning.

The biggest restoration was done by Susuhunan Pakubuwono X 1893 - 1939.

Most of the bulding has white color tone and blue tone with the mixture of javanesse style.

Generally Keraton is devided to be :

1. Kompleks Alun-alun Lor/Utara,

2. Kompleks Sasana Sumewa,

3. Kompleks Sitihinggil Lor/Utara,

4 Kompleks Kamandungan Lor/Utara,

5. Kompleks Sri Manganti,

6 Kompleks Kedhaton,

7 Kompleks Kamagangan,

8. Kompleks Srimanganti Kidul/Selatan (?) dan

9. Kemandungan Kidul/Selatan, serta

10. Kompleks Sitihinggil Kidul dan Alun-alun Kidul.

This Keraton complex is also sorrounded by baluwarti, a defense wall with 3 to 5 meters tall and the thickness around 1 meter wihout anjungan.

This wall sorrounds a region with square meters form.

This area's width is around five hundreds meters and length around seven hundreds meters.

The inside part of the wall of Keraton Complex is Kemandungan Lor (north Kemandungan) until Kemandungan Kidul (South Kemandungan)

Both Sitihinggil and Alun-alun are not protected by this defense wall.

to be continued.........

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