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Visiting Sultan Palace of Yogyakarta

Here we have a town that is a center of art and education, offers some good traveling , shopping and has a wide range of tourist facilities. This destination is Yogyakarta namely. It is a bustling town of some 500,000 people and the most popular tourist destination on Java. Yogyakarta considered as a major tourist destination in Indonesia. It is the capital city of the province of Yogyakarta Special Region which is in the southern part of the Central Java province, Indonesia. It is one of five districts within the semi-autonomous province of Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta. Well, this special status is thanks to the Sultanate of Hamengkubuwono, which has ruled the area since 1749 and steered the state through difficult times of occupation and revolution. Sultan Palace in Yogyakarta is a kingdom that began through time to time. A long time ago, Surakarta or Solo was the capital of Mataram Kingdom before 1755. Later on treaty of Giyanti in 1755, Mataram was devided into two kingdom