Tugu Yogyakarta

The Tugu monument is a white-and-gold pillar at a major crossroads in Yogyakarta and one of the city's defining symbols. Erected in the eighteenth century by an early sultan, it forms part of the imaginary line linking the sultan's palace, the monument and the peak of Mount Merapi to the sea, a cosmological axis central to Javanese belief. The original taller column was toppled by an earthquake and rebuilt in its present shorter form under Dutch supervision.