Who not knows so he will not pity, may be this is part from word series that can at lay open when we only know name Sumenep, but Sumenep very bring meaning and meaning from a regency with various the natural beauty. Not loose from our observation when wants to ascertain what is in end regency east island Madura this something that stills natural, you want tau? visit by now. Tens visible island, the coast beauty, mosque jami artistic, fossil palace Sumenep stand rigid in the middle of city, special food variety Sumenep, all this is very natural. certain this matter is very knocks at your heart is all to hurries to aim regency Sumenep. Regency sumenep has vast area 2.000 kilometer square divided two parts, landing for the width of 1.147 kilometer square (17 district)s and archipelago for the width of 853 kilometer square. island total that has as much as 76 fruit and vast waters around 50.000 kilometer square. this last is primadona tour sumenep. those isle, pearl series basin, glue indonesia is beautiful archipelagic country. Island line in the east island madura maidenlike dance this called archipelago kangean. nick name because island front biggest kangean. besides there are still more island sapudi, raas, puteran, pentile, gili iyang, and king island. regency government sumenep called archipelago area as tour object island resort.Visiting the tourism objects in Sumenep Regency one should begin from the City of Sumenep. The gate of Sumenep City as border to the town consist of two Gapura. The Gapura with a statue of flying horse stand on has been symbol of Sumenep.
About 500 meters to the south and turn right about 100 meters is a bus station named Arya Wiraraja. One can get off here and take a becak or go on foot to the center of city or to tourism objects like Mosque, Museum and Kraton.
Some tourism objects list on this city like Museum and Kraton (Palace) of Sumenep, Great Mosque, Asta Tinggi Cemetery. All of these are historical tourism objects as the remnants of Sumenep Royal Palace.
TOURISM OBJECT KRATON SUMENEP
One hundred meters eastern of Adipura Park is a location of Museum and Kraton Sumenep. The old building on the right side of the road is a place for keeping a gold carriage, a gift from Queen of England to Sumenep King. Beside that it is also used to keep other old things like old chairs, old table and the like.Sumenep Royal Palace ( Kraton ) is listed in front of Museum. This palace was built in 1762 in the reign of Tumengung Arya Nata Kusumo I. It consist of the Gate, the Pendopo, the Palace itself, the old Palace and the Sare Park. The Gate is located on the left side of the palace. It is a great gate of which style influenced by Europe style. It is popular to name Labang Mesem ( Smiling Gate ), an entry to the palace complex.
The Pendopo ( a meeting hall ) is a hall placed in the center of palace complex used for holding a meeting. It is a simple but unique building with good style. The building that related pendopo to the palace called Mandiyoso. It is a building about 25 meters long from the palace to the Pendopo.
The Sumenep Palace consist of two floors. The first floor has four rooms. Two of them on the right side and the others on the left. The second floor is a a place for keeping the princesses when they would come to a marriage.
On the right side of the palace there is also an old building named Kantor Koneng. In the last time it was a palace of Bindoro Saod before he handed to his successor. It is now functioned to keep many kinds of old weapons used in long ago, old traditional ceremony tools, old bracelets and rings of people in the long time and the like. On the back of Kantor Koneng there is a building functioned to be museum too. It is used for keep the remnants of Sumenep Royal Palace the uniform of king, some old chairs and beds, and the new one is a skeleton of hawk found on the Kalianget shore in 1977.
On the left side of Pendopo is Sare Park. It is a park with a small swimming pool of which water come out from base. In the last time it was used specially for the princesses.
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