Today, I'm going to tell you about our trip to
Pesanggrahan Warungboto. A very beautiful ancient garden that was designed
privetly is found in Warungboto area. When we pass by Jalan Veteran (the road
directing to the right from the crossroad before Gembira Loka zoo) and see the
ruins of a house-like building, we may neglect it as it looks like a common
house building. Starting from now, however, we must know that the building is
historical since it is one of the pesanggrahans built by Hamengku Buwono II.
The proof of it is that the name of
the building is mentioned in one traditional Javanese song telling about
Hamengku Buwono II. In that song, the building is not called pesanggrahan
Warungboto as current people call it now, but it is named pesanggrahan
Rejowinangun. The song itself in overall tells about the success gained during
the reign of Hamengku Buwono II.
We began exploring the building from the front part or
the one in direct border with the main road. This front part is of square shape
with the floor made from something like cement. Located in front, this part
possibly functioned as a hall or lobby as in modern buildings this time. From
the front part, we can see the view of all complex of the pesanggrahan.
On the left side, there is a narrow, downward
staircase. We could directly guest that the building of this pesanggrahan was
of two stories like other buildings of similar pesanggrahan constructed
of two floors. We have to be careful to go downward because there is no holding
rail on both sides and much moss grow on most parts of it to make them
slippery.
It is in this underground floor that we can see much
of the enchanting parts of the building. The most beautiful part is the garden
area that is completed with two ponds. The first pond is of circular shape with
the diameter of 4.5 meters and the there is a water spring in the center of it.
The second pond, on the other hand, is of square shape with the dimension of 10
meters x 4 meters. Those two ponds are adjacent one to each other with the
connecting channel that can be seen clearly from the second pond.
To the north and south of the pond, there is a
sufficient wide door of medium high. The door connects to other part of the
underground space. In the east part of the pond, we will see three windows, one
is of square shape and the other two are with arch shape on them. While in the
west part of the pond, there is one door with an arch at the upper part,
connecting to the next two arch doors equipped with some staircases. The last
two doors connect the garden area underground to the ground floor.
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