City of Paradise

SINTREN DANCE

javasindo@gmail.com (Hendi Omponk) — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:37:00 -0700

Sintren is a traditional art and the surrounding community Pekalongan, Sintren is an element of the mystical dance / magic that comes from love story Sulasih and Sulandono. In the story that Sulandono is the son of Ki Baurekso results Rantamsari marriage with the Goddess. Raden Sulandono forge Sulasih love with a girl from the village Kalisalak, but the love affair does not get the blessing from the examination Baurekso, finally R. Sulandono go and be imprisoned Sulasih choose to become dancers. However a meeting between them, still continues through the other. Meeting arranged by Dewi Rantamsari to enter the spirit of beautiful woman's body Sulasih, at that time was also a R. Sulandono which are called the spirit of his mother, be imprisoned for a Sulasih and there were meetings between Sulasih and R. Sulandono.

Since it is held every sintren shows the dancers entered the spirit of beautiful woman bound by diviner, with a note that things are done when the dancers are truly in a state of pure (virgin). Sinteren played a girl that is still sacred, assisted by the diviner and gamelan accompanied 6 people according Development sintren dance as entertainment and culture with dancers and assistants' bador '(joke). In a game art DewiLanjar any such effect in the game Sintren, diviner (puppeteer) DewiLanjar often invite the Spirit to enter in the game Sintren. When it is successful then the players can Sintren look more attractive and bring in more light-footed dance and mesmerize.

Art is very famous and popular in the region, especially Pantura Pekalongan. In the era before the event is used to sinter the communications and entertainment event for young people young woman looking for a mate, other than that this art is used as a mediation request for rain. While at this time Sintren still often played on the days of National and welcomes guests to the official.

SOTO TAUTO PEKALONGAN

javasindo@gmail.com (Hendi Omponk) — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:51:00 -0700

Pekalongan for residents and lovers of culinary food is not strange with this one, the name seems too Tauto Soto and Soto Tauco. I say quite unique because of this newly soto tauco use a more unique and more meat that is used buffalo meat. Tauto Soto is a typical regional food in addition to rice Pekalongan Megono course. Soto tauto taste very unique and delicious, buffalo meat is very soft. although the color black .. but a bit of delicious.

To find the area of Pekalongan is not difficult because almost every corner of the town of Pekalongan is selling Tauto Soto, but I recommended Tauto Market Limpung in the market Limpung, Pantura direction of the Right. it's tasty and delicious. not expensive for the price of Rp 5,000 - Rp. 7,500 you get a plateful of rice have been and Soto Tauto cupful. Try to be more sensational enjoy Tauto Soto Megono with a plateful of rice (rice, megono, balado eggs, orek-orek tempe, salted fish and lodeh bongkrek) plus crackers and hot tea are guaranteed and you will be hooked to enjoy nostalgic return. so if you want to try soto which has a taste quite unique, Soto Tauto can be used as an alternative of your choice, as a tasty side dish of rice, but more comfortable life lontong eaten. Tauto Pekalongan usually found in many small shop-stalls in the city of Pekalongan in the afternoon.

GARANG ASEM PEKALONGAN

javasindo@gmail.com (Hendi Omponk) — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:01:00 -0700

A special menu that is in the town of Pekalongan that is "Garang Asem". For your culinary lovers not complete if you have not already been enjoying the delights of this food you can only enjoy when you stay over in the town of Pekalongan.

"Garang Asem" is a kind of food "Rawon", typically from the Pekalongan area. But for the garang asem, given a lot of tomato sauce, so that gives the sour taste fresh. Garang Asem is usually mixed with meat, liver or eggs. Garang Asem is usually cooked in a bit spicy, so it seems to favor. In the city of Pekalongan, Garang Asem is very easily found in a stall - a stall, especially in the afternoon.

PEKALONGAN BATIK WHOLESALE MARKET

javasindo@gmail.com (Hendi Omponk) — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:13:00 -0700

Pekalongan city center known as the Batik industry, provide traction shopping with spread-wholesale and wholesale showroom in the pre-eminent batik along the main road of Pekalongan. The idea of making this wholesale market after the entrepreneurs in the city of Pekalongan Batik to create a club or association batik businessman, in a meeting where the idea appears to provide a place of business, which became the center of batik product marketing.

The existence of a wholesale show room and help the batik is batik Pekalongan City in the product and very easy for the buyer or importer batik from other regions in efforts to find the product they want batik. The tourists who use the bus-tour buses can enter and shop in the area with a comfortable and wholesalers can select the price and the motives vary.

MUSEUM BATIK PEKALONGAN

javasindo@gmail.com (Hendi Omponk) — Sat, 16 May 2009 07:33:00 -0700

Pekalongan batik museum, this place is an important part in the Pekalongan. This batik museum inaugurated by President Susilo Bambang Yhudoyono on 12 July 2006. as a place to store the history of batik art and culture, of this place into one of the interesting places to visit.

Pekalongan batik museum has a collection of batik originated from various regions in Indonesia such as Yogyakarta, Surakarta, and batik-batik coastal regions, such as Cirebon, Pekalongan, Lasem, Rembang, Tuban and Sidoarjo. There is also a collection of Malaysian batik and batik ancient tens of even one hundred years.

SYAWALAN

javasindo@gmail.com (Hendi Omponk) — Sat, 16 May 2009 07:24:00 -0700

Pekalongan city rich with Traditional Culture. This tradition is still maintained from generation to generation in a long period of time. The tourists who visited the accident coincided with the execution events this traditional, can participate in a ceremony witnessed the way that is quite interesting and unique. Some of the traditions of this event are "Syawalan". Syawalan community is a tradition of Pekalongan City Regional Krapyak society especially in the northern city of Pekalongan, which is held on every seventh day after the wordiness. The most interesting in the implementation of this tradition is the making of the giant size Lopis achieve high 2 meters to 1.5 meters diameter and weight reached 500 kg.

After the session with prayer, and then cut giant Lopis by Mayor Pekalongan and go around to the visitors. The visitor usually scramble to get Lopis is meant to be a blessing. Making Lopis intended to maintain the strap Krapyak relationship between the community and surrounding areas with the community, it is assumed that the nature or Lopis a sticky paste. Society Krapyak also usually provide snacks and drinks free of charge to the visitors. Number of visitors on this tradition to reach thousands of people from all over the city and the surrounding Pekalongan.

SEA CHARITY "NYADRAN"

javasindo@gmail.com (Hendi Omponk) — Sat, 16 May 2009 05:24:00 -0700

Sea of many traditions of charity done in various regions in Indonesia, one in the city of Pekalongan referred to the usual tradition Nyadran. This tradition is carried out by the fishing community of Pekalongan Syuro each month as the expression of gratitude to Allah SWT on the abundant seafood. On this tradition with the fishermen community to Ritual Sadran decorate with fishing boats that contains, among other offerings Buffalo Head, various food market, puppet and Dewi Sri Pandawa Lima, various toys, and after a procession through some of the prayer of salvation and then brought to the sea to be preceded with the release by a Head of Buffalo Spiritual figures.

The contents of the boat 13 has been released into the bone of children in the hope that fishermen obtain salvation from God through which goods are released. At the same time held the ritual staging shadowgraph with the story "Bedog basu" which told of a fish on land and at sea, a wide variety of competitions and sports, arts and culinary fish haul fishermen.

MAP OF THE CITY OF PEKALONGAN

javasindo@gmail.com (Hendi Omponk) — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:54:00 -0700

PEKALONGAN

Map of The City

Central Java Province

Area 17.55 km ²

Population
Number of 272,000 (2003)
Density 15,499 people / km ²

The division of administrative
Subdistrict 4
Village 47

Pekalongan city consists of four districts, namely: east district of Pekalongan , west district of Pekalongan, north district of Pekalongan and south district of Pekalongan.

ART BATIK

javasindo@gmail.com (Hendi Omponk) — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:27:00 -0700

One of the arts and culture in the city's most famous art that is Pekalongan Batik. Batik Pekalongan famous throughout the world, including jlamprang motif, Cuwiri, Garuda Madep, Galaran. Batik Pekalongan have distinctive characteristics in terms of patterns or colors. Color or motif batik Pekalongan many influential style and Chinese motifs.

RICE MEGONO

javasindo@gmail.com (Hendi Omponk) — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:18:00 -0700

Pekalongan famous city with a special food called MEGONO, which is a kind of side dish made of young jackfruit chopped finely mixed with grated coconut and chilli. However, with more spice concoction complete with a slightly spicy taste and sliced Serai, will cause the typical sense. Megono this is very nice and suitable as a breakfast side dish, also combined with a suitable side dish of any kind. In fact, only accompanied with the sauce and fry in soy sauce, it's very delicious. In the city of Pekalongan, Megono very easily found. From a stall-stall in the stall until the five-foot restaurant offers almost all of Rice Megono.

HISTORIC PLACES

javasindo@gmail.com (Hendi Omponk) — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:37:00 -0700

Pekalongan city is a cultural heritage and the past as the capital region in the colonial era up to the time of independence that has many historic buildings such as the colonial Government in the form of Office Assistant Governor / Resident, House Office of the Assistant Governor / Resident, correctional facility, Port Office, Office Post and Giro, the Railway Station, Places of Worship in form ancient mosque Jami', Sapuro mosque, temple, and the Prince Keputran House, House Personalized Patih old, custom home Pekalongan, House Chinatown. Historic monument above the Tourism Potential of Pekalongan City should continue to be developed as tourist attractions in the local, regional, national and international.

Pekalongan Jami' Mosque, the mosque is one of the legacy built by "Wali Songo" in the days of the kingdom of Mataram. This mosque has been aged more than thousands of years. as a historic place for the community Pekalongan, Jami' mosque remains guarded existence of which has experienced some restoration and repair times without leaving the original building was a mosque. Pekalongan Jami' mosque lies in the way of square Nusantara Pekalongan city, as a historic mosque that the mosque is often visited by tourists both local and international.

As a diverse community, Pekalongan have these characteristics. one of the historical evidence that can be met when you stop in Pekalongan in the place of worship for the ethnic Chinese known as the pagoda. history of this temple started from the adventure story of warlord Cheng Ho came from China who travel to it and stay over in Pekalongan with establishing a temple to his place of rest and worship. This temple was more than a thousand years old and historical evidence for the diversity of the community Pekalongan.

Old governor's house, one of the historical evidence which is very important for the community that is Pekalongan old governor's house. this place is evidence of the existence of the government in the early Pekalongan. All activities related to governance is based here, now where this condition is still guarded and changed the culture of the place for the community Pekalongan.

Kaputren princely house, a place that has a high historical value in the home city of Pekalongan kaputren prince. first place is a palace for the prince kaputren, as a dwelling which is also the place of the kingdom at that time. place with beautiful gardens and rare trees that shade, the place is fun for you if you had a layover in the town of Pekalongan. this place is now used as a meeting place with the government and also the community gardens of the city.

HISTORY OF PEKALONGAN CITY

javasindo@gmail.com (Hendi Omponk) — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:38:00 -0700

Origin of the name of Pekalongan as expressed by the people from generation to generation, there are several versions. One of them is mentioned in the Baurekso become Regent Pekalongan and also as The kingdom of Mataram. In the year 1628 he obtained the command of Sultan Agung to the Dutch army in Batavia. And he fought hard, and even be imprisoned as beginning with the bat / bats (Java language: topo ngalong) in the forest Gambiran (now: Gambaran village). Be imprisoned in that told Baurekso ribbing and disturbed soldiers invisible messenger Goddess long and tapering, but it does not even work long and tapering Dewi Baurekso made as his wife. Since that time, the region is famous by the name of Pekalongan. In the other version mentioned that the name also comes from the Pekalongan words Apek and Along (Java language: Apek (search), along (a lot). This is related with the sea in Pekalongan region's rich fish results.

Pekalongan City is one of the 35 City / District Region in Central Java Province. In the development towards free competition, the City continues to explore Pekalongan potential that exists. During this Pekalongan city was known as the CITY BATIK which is the production and sales centers of Batik in the large scale that has been reaching out to National and International Market. Pekalongan city can be said has been one of the city for the reference products Batik, both National and International This case has been built with a museum of Batik by National President of the Republic of Indonesia (Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono) on 12 July 2006. In addition to Batik Pekalongan City also has the potential business in the field of fisheries with the fishing port of the archipelago had been the center of the largest fish in Indonesia, the other is the potential residual Historic Buildings, Shopping Tour, the Religious Arts, Tourism Kencana sand beaches and beautiful coastal Slamaran The Hot and Tirta Earth. In the city of Pekalongan. Pekalongan community consists of various ethnic, the ethnic majority, and in ethnic Chinese and Arabic. Since the first City of Pekalongan that the majority are very religious Islam, known in the running of daily life. Religious nature of which is seen on Friday in the general field of business close, many schools and non-formal education is to teach and maintain the teachings of Islamic Art and Islamic Culture. Ethnic Chinese community which is quite diffuse and has also bred to maintain the ethnic culture that they bring from its ancestor. This can be seen with the houses of worship and the arts community and the Buddhist culture that is still kept. Social life and spur economic growth in many areas of business and other needs of life, including in the field of tourism. With the need to use all resources and to increase local income, expand employment, opportunity and try to introduce tourism potential, the Municipality of Pekalongan need to improve the tourism development program through the utilization and management of tourism and new tourism digging existing It has not yet been developed.