Magelang
Magelang is a provincial town Indonesia of Java Centers, located in the middle of a fertile agricultural area, between the volcanos Merbabu and Sumbing, to approximately 40 km in the North-West of Yogyakarta, on the road connecting this last city to Semarang, capital of the province, located on the northern coast. Its surface is of 1.130 km ².
At the time colonial, Magelang was a military station. It shelters the military academy today indonésienne.
Tourism
Magelang is the city nearest to the Temple of Borobudur, a Buddhist monument builds in VIIIe century after J. - C.The city kept the majority of its buildings of the colonial time, in particular the residence of the resident , in which the Dutchmen accepted and stopped the prince Diponegoro, putting thus fine at the Guerre of Java (1825-1830). A statue set up in the honor of the prince is on the alum-alum (town square) of Magelang.
Magelang is the chief town of the Kabupaten (department) of the same name, in which is, in addition to Boroobudur temples of Mendut and Pawon, as well as a temple less known, Canggal, where one found a transcription gone back to 778 after J. - C. mentioning the name of the first souverian Royaume of Mataram, Sanjaya
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