Minggu, 24 Maret 2019

ABOUT MALANG CITY




Malang City is a city located in East Java Province, Indonesia and is the largest city in East Java after Surabaya. The city was founded in the Kingdom of Kanjuruhan and is located on a plateau of 145.28km along with Batu City and Malang Regency. Malang City is part of a unitary area known as Malang Raya.

Malang City is well known for being labeled as an education city. The city has the best universities such as Brawijaya University and Malang State University. Besides that, this city is a tourism city because of its charming nature surrounded by mountains and cool air. Malang is also known as a city of flowers because of the many flowers that adorn the city. The city of Malang is also a city of art because of the many distinctive arts of this city, from dances to performances. Malang City has a variety of people from various ethnic groups and cultures. The population of Malang city reached 895,387 people with the majority Javanese tribe, followed by Madura. Malang metropolitan area, Malang Raya, is the second largest metropolitan area in East Java after Gerbangkertosusila. If viewed from the cultural side, Malang City is included in the Arek Cultural Area.

Malang City keeps various historical relics. This city keeps relics of the Kingdom of Kanjuruhan period to the Netherlands. Dutch heritage in general in the form of ancient buildings such as the Kayutangan Church which has gothic architecture. Malang also held various events to preserve its cultural heritage, one of them is the Malang Tempo Doel Festival. Malang also has a lot of historical heritage which has become a landmark like Tugu Malang (Round Square).



Malang is known to have many rural and typical thematic villages. Among them, the most famous is the Jodipan Tourism Village (Kampung Warna-Warni), the first colorful village in Indonesia to become one of the favorite destinations in Malang City. In addition, there is also Tridi Village located opposite the Warna-Warni Village which is famous for mural works on its residential walls, such as Haji Lane in Singapore. The two villages are connected by a glass bridge. Both are the favorite selfie places for tourists. Besides that, there is also a tourist village in Malang which is famous for its environmental friendliness and greenery. Among them are Kampung Glintung Go Green (3G) located in Purwantoro and Bamboo Mewek Village on Tunjungsekar. Environmental friendliness in Kampung 3G can be seen from the full village by plants. The 3G village is also the first water conservation village in Indonesia. Meanwhile, Kampung Bamboo Mewek is considered environmentally friendly because it is full of trees and bamboo and is a conservation village. As a cultured city, Malang also has cultural villages. The Polowijen Cultural Village is one of them. This village is considered a cultural village because it stores and displays various cultural heritage sites: unfortunate masks, the tomb of Mbah Reni, the first unfortunate mask maker, and Sumur Windu, the bathing place of Ken Dedes in ancient times. The village also has a unique library located in the gazebo. In addition to the village, there is also the Malangan Mask Village. As the name implies, starting from the gate to the area, visitors will be welcomed by hundreds of masks with various colors and various characters as in the banner stories.





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