Umbul Pasiraman a Bathing Pool of Sultan in Taman Sari Yogyakarta Indonesia

INDONESIAN HISTORY - Taman Sari Sultan Palace is the former site of the park or garden palace of Yogyakarta Palace, which can be compared to the Garden as garden Bogor Palace. This garden was built in the time of the lane I (HB) in the years 1758-1765 / 9. Initially, the park gets the title of "The Fragrant Garden" has an area of over 10 hectares with about 57 buildings in the form of buildings, swimming baths, hanging bridges, canals, and artificial lakes along the artificial island and underwater corridor.

Umbul Pasiraman

Swimming Baths Umbul Binangun, Taman Sari, Kraton

"Umbul Pasiraman" or there is a call to "Umbul Binangun" (another version of "Umbul Winangun") is a bathing pool for the Sultan, his wives, and the daughters of his. The complex is surrounded by a high wall. To get into this place provided two gates, one on the east side and one on the west side. At the gate there are levels decreased. In the complex Pasiraman Bannerman there are three pools are decorated with mushroom-shaped springs. Around the pool there is a giant flower pot. In addition there is also a pool on the north side of the building and in the south.

Building on the north side is a place of rest and a change of clothes for the daughters and wives (concubines). In the south there is a pool that is called by the name of "Umbul Muncar". A similar path pier into the boundary between this pool with a pool in the south, called the "Blumbang Kuras". In the south Blumbang Kuras are building with tower in the middle. The west wing of the building is a place to change clothes and east wings to break the Sultan. The tower in the middle, supposedly used the Sultan to see his wife and daughter who were bathing naked body then the most impressive in the sovereign will call to the tower. In the south of the building there is a pool called "Umbul Binangun", a bathing pool which is devoted to the Sultan and the queen alone. In his day, in addition to the Sultan, only women are allowed to enter into this complex. This is possible because all the women (empress, wife (consort) and the sultan's daughter) that goes into the garden sari should loose clothes (naked), so in addition to women in hard prohibited by the sultan to go to Taman Sari.

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