Puro Mangkunegaran, Javanese Palace of Surakarta - Solo

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Solo is one of the Javanese cultural landscape in Indonesia. One of the favorite destination that domestic and foreign tourists visited are Mangkunegaran Palace. It is palace building complex or commonly known as Puro Mangkunegaran.
The location of this palace is situated near the complex of traditional market of Surakarta, including Klewer, PGS and Beteng.

Puro Mangkunegaran is a palace where the king of Surakata, Sri Paduka Mangkunagara lives. The palace was built in 1757. The architecture design of this palace is so incredible that it has unique characteristic. The palace consists of many buildings, including pamedan, pendopo,pringgitan, dalem and kaputran. All of the buildings are fenced with strong walls. The construction of this palace started after Salatiga Agreement. Salatiga Agreement showed the initial construction of Praja Mangkunegara. The Agreement devided the reign of Java into Kesultanan Yogyakarta and Kasunanan Surakarta by VOC in 1755. Raden Mas Said, with his title Mangkunegoro I started to build his authority in the western part of Pepe River, which is now known as Solo or Surakarta.

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