SEMARANG OLD TOWN IN INDONESIA .

Semarang is a colonial city par exellence. Established in 17th century, Kota Lama Semarang is a best preserved colonial city with remarkable testimony of important historical phases of human civilization - in economic, political and social - in the South East Asia and the World.

Although it is today a sprawling metropolis of 1.2 million inhabitants, its old centre retains a group of buildings with various architectural styles coming from medieval, baroque and modern style.
Its unique urban landscape shows a development of a fortified city which is growing in to an international and cosmopolitan port city in its age. There fore it is worth to preserve Kota Lama Semarang, especilly from today’s thread: extensive flooding and land subsidence.
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