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Bandung Story and Legend Sangkuriang


Bandung Today
Bandung is actually an old city, the past before there Bandung city is an ancient lake, therefore it is surrounded by volcanoes Bandung, North Bandung in the mountains "Tangkuban Perahu", and south of Bandung in Patuha guard, who is famous for its "Kawah Putih" or white crater, two active mountain until now.
Tangkuban Perahu The Legend Of Sangkuriang

Bandung highland Being in the middle area of West Java province. in addition to the beautiful panorama and air cool this area has an interesting geological phenomenon. Geological history of the plateau in harmony with urban legends bandung Priangan already famous "Legend Sangkuriang", therefore the site the site geology, anthropology and even the surrounding region associated with the "Legend Sangkuriang".
Overall Priangan is an area blessed with fertile soil and the Beautiful panorama. Bandung can be reached by road and air, as the development of Indonesia. The road to Bandung is not difficult, from jakarta can be through a new toll road Cipularang or via the old road "Jakarta - Puncak - Bandung".
View Around Bandung

Bandung geological plateau when measured in the range of geological age can be said to be still very young, some of which are closely related to the history of early human life that the range of thousands of years old. this is evidenced by the discovery of various artifacts by Van Koeningswald (1896) derived from the culture called "Neolithic".
lithology plateau "Bandung" is generally occupied by volcanic deposits from the volcano around the "Bandung". in terms of the earth, the legend is closely associated with volcanic eruptions "Tangkuban Perahu" which generate the stream sediment lithologies Citarum London hedge leading to the lake "Bandung ancient". the "Legend Sangkuriang" indicates that when the geological events that occurred has witnessed man, this is proved by evidence of anthropological artifacts around the finding of funds "bandung" ancient. Becoming a question where "Sangkuriang" stem the river "Citarum.........

Zero Kilometer of Bandung City

Over time "Abraham Van Riebeek" in 1792 to find and make the coffee plantations in the highlands "Bandung". History of the town "center" begins in the southern city that is "Krapyak" which is now called "Dayeuh kolot" which means the old city, while the "Bandung current" formerly called "Een Klein Berg" meaning small village.Dutch trading company "Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie" or VOC parahiyangan open plateau and the first coffee plantations in the "center" in the open. VOC Governor Herman Willem Daendels stuck his stick at a point in the middle of the city of Bandung in 1810, known as the 0 kilometer city, which now looks right in front of the public employment office or across the Hotel "Savoy Homann", and the anniversary of Bandung city is set each on 25 September.


Savoy Homann Hotel
 0 kilometer city of Bandung is located in asia africa street, in the Dutch colonial period this road called "Groote Post Weg" or post a big way, the history of this road leaving bitter memories for the nation, making this road claimed more than 30,000 thousand workers of Java, the project ambitious post along the 1000 kilometer road from West Java Anyer Panarukan Up in East Java, designed by Willem Daendels. year 1808 - 1810 "De Groote Post Weg" in the wake. Previously the capital of West Java is Cianjur, located between Jakarta Puncak Bandung, since the eruption of "Mount Gede" in 1864 the Dutch East Indies colonial government finally moved to the area now is in the Call "Paris Van Java Bandung". In 1884 the railway line from Batavia (Jakarta) To the city of Bandung and Bandung is what makes the city a massive expansion, since Bandung is located in the center high-end tourist destination and not only that, since Bandung is located in a mountainous area the Dutch Government build a military base in this town. railway lines continue to hold in Yogyakarta and Surabaya through completion in 1894.

Train Jakarta - Bandung
in the late 19th century, the city of Bandung is very rapid growth in the facilitation of the railways, finally bringing the city to the golden era, tea and coffee plantations began to expand, hotel hotel began in the wake, such as the Hotel "Savoy Homann" 1880, "Grand Preanger "1889." Gedung Sate ", 1920, there are many old buildings built by the Dutch and are now leaving the" Bandung Art Deco city ", a never-ending road construction makes this city continues to live with influens of European nations, not only in plantation development and economics alone, over all it unwittingly became the center of fashion in Bandung Indonesia at that time, until finally the famous Bandung as "Paris Van Java" and till now still the center of London fashion in Indonesia, until finally a lot of standing shopping center in Bandung, local people called the "Factory Outlet" or "FO".
Rumah Mode Factory Outlet

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