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   Prambanan Temple

   A Hindu compound of the ninth century dedicated to the trimurti, its tallest shrine reaching forty-seven metres. Long abandoned and shaken by the 2006 earthquake, it is World Heritage and the largest Hindu site in Indonesia.

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   Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat

   The palace of the sultans of Yogyakarta, laid out from 1755 on a cosmological axis running from the volcano to the southern sea. The sultan is still both monarch and elected governor; court servants in traditional dress run the compound and gamelan is played on set days.

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   Kalasan Temple

   A Buddhist temple of 778 east of Yogyakarta, dedicated to Tara and among the oldest on Java. Traces survive of the vajralepa plaster that once gave its carvings a hard, polished skin.

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   Sewu

   An eighth-century Buddhist complex eight hundred metres north of Prambanan, once holding two hundred and forty-nine temples around a central shrine — the second largest in Indonesia after Borobudur. Its name means a thousand.

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   Sari Temple

   An eighth-century Buddhist building near Kalasan, originally two storeys with wooden floors and stairs that have long rotted away. It probably housed the monks who served the temple beside it.

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   Plaosan temple

   A group of Buddhist temples in the village of Bugisan, a kilometre northeast of Prambanan. It covers two thousand square metres at 148 metres above sea level, with the Dengok river two hundred metres away.

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   Ratu Boko Temple

   A site on a plateau three kilometres south of the Prambanan temples. Its original name is uncertain; local people named it after Boko, the legendary king of the Loro Jonggrang tale.

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   Kauman Great Mosque

   The great mosque of the Yogyakarta sultanate, built in 1773 west of the palace square. It has no dome or minaret; instead a tiered Javanese roof rests on carved wooden pillars, in the manner of the island's older mosques.

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   Malioboro Street

   The main shopping street of Yogyakarta, and part of the axis the city was planned on, running from the sultan's palace north towards Merapi. Batik sellers, street food and buskers fill it into the night.

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    Banyunibo Temple

    A ninth-century Buddhist temple standing in a hollow among rice fields southeast of Ratu Boko. Its name means falling water, and its single shrine keeps an unusually complete roof and a relief of the goddess Hariti.

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   Taman Sari

   A pleasure garden built for the sultans between 1758 and 1765, with bathing pools, a tower to watch the women from and an underground mosque reached by tunnels. Much of it is ruined and lived in.

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   Prambanan Temple Compounds

   The World Heritage listing that covers the Hindu temples on the Yogyakarta border — Prambanan itself along with Lumbung, Bubrah and the Buddhist complex at Sewu, all within one archaeological park.

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   Fort Vredeburg

   A Dutch fort of the 1760s opposite the sultan's palace, built to keep the court in view. Since 1992 it has held a museum of the Indonesian independence struggle, told in dioramas.

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   Dirgantara Mandala Museum

   The central museum of the Indonesian air force, at Yogyakarta, covering the country's flying from the revolution onwards. Its hangars hold a captured Japanese fighter and Soviet aircraft from the Sukarno years.

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   Tugu Yogyakarta

   A white pillar at a crossroads in Yogyakarta, first raised in 1755 on the axis between the palace and the volcano, rebuilt after an earthquake in 1889. Students are photographed at it, and it stands for the city itself.

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   Ganjuran Church

   A Catholic church of 1924 at Bantul, built by a Dutch sugar-planting family, where the Sacred Heart is housed in a Javanese Hindu-style shrine and Christ is carved as a Javanese king. It is the oldest church in the district.

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   Sonobudoyo Museum

   A museum and library of Javanese history and culture at Yogyakarta in Indonesia. After the national museum in Jakarta it holds the fullest collection of Javanese material, with Neolithic pottery, eighth-century bronzes, wayang puppets, old weapons such as the kris, and Javanese masks.

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   Sambisari Temple

   A ninth-century Hindu temple found by a farmer in 1966 five metres below the surface, buried by volcanic ash from Merapi. It was dug out and now sits at the bottom of a grassed pit.

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   Plered

   The site of the palace to which Amangkurat I of Mataram, who reigned from 1645 to 1677, moved from Karta in 1647. Rebels took and sacked it during the Trunajaya rebellion, and Amangkurat died on the retreat.

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    Sajiwan

    A ninth-century Buddhist temple southeast of Prambanan, whose base is carved with animal fables — a tortoise and geese, a crab and a crane — from the Indian story collections.

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