In Makassar there is a large fortress that stands majestically, the name Fort Rotterdam. Do not imagine the location of this fort was far outside the city, and we have to spend a few hours to sit in cars, high speed, because the location of the fort is located in the city of Makassar, so cukupm easy to achieve. Fort with the page width double Fatahilah Museum is located in front of Jakarta seaport city of Napier or the middle of the city's central commercial center. If we stay in the area surrounding the beach Losari, then the distance is within the range of radius 2 km's only. From the highway, Fort Rotterdam which is also called the castle Ujungpandang familiar (another name of Makassar) will be easily recognizable because it is very striking with 1600's era architecture that is different from the home and office diseputarnya. Solid black mossy walls towering almost as high as 5 meters, and the original entrance still like his prime. Of height, form the fort as a form of preparing turtle totem was about to enter the beach. [Navigasi.net] Historic Sites - Fort Fort Rotterdam

Entering the main door which is small, we will be ambushed by the shades of the past. Very sturdy thick walls, wooden doors, old-fashioned latch, will be obvious. Admission to the castle is actually free of charge, because the area inside the fort is converted into a museum of cultural heritage which are empty. Fort Rotterdam which is used as government offices Makassar Cultural Center so spooky atmosphere that we usually encounter such old location is not so thick as the human remains found wandering to and fro. Because this area is used as an office, so that the cleanliness and tidiness environment there is still quite well preserved. The fort was originally built in 1545 by the king of Gowa to X that is Tunipallangga Ulaweng. Initial raw material is the fortress walls of stone mixed with baked clay to dry. Inside a building filled with the typical stage house where the king of Gowa and family settled in it. When the king of Gowa berpidnah during the XIV, the walls of the fort and then replaced with rock hard black padas. The presence of the Dutch who controlled the area around the banda and embarrassment, necessarily make the Netherlands decided to conquer the Gowa that VOC merchant fleet could easily go in and docked here. Since the year 1666 came the first war between the ruling king of Gowa in the fort by the Dutch authorities Speelman. More than a year battered by the Dutch fort aided by troops hired from the Moluccas, until finally there Gowa royal power ended. The whole fort was in a mess, the king's house burned in it was destroyed by enemy soldiers. This defeat forced the king to make the Netherlands signed an "agreement Bongaya" on November 18, 1667. Speelman later decided to settle there by rebuilding and managing buildings there needs to be tailored to the tastes of Dutch architecture. An early form you resemble a rectangular box surrounded by five bastions, get an extra turn one another bastion on the west side. Also changed the name of the fort became Fort Rotterdam, the birthplace of Gen. Holland Cornelis Speelman Gub. [Navigasi.net] Historic Sites - Fort Fort Rotterdam Diponegoro holding cell looks from inside the cell.

One of the famous sights here than to see the castle, is a narrow prison visiting room Diponegoro when discarded by the Dutch from being caught in Java. Java War broke out between the years 1825-1830 which ended with the Dutch dijebaknya Diponegoro while attending peace talks. Diponegoro was arrested and exiled to Manado, then in 1834 he moved to Fort Rotterdam. He placed himself in a prison cell-walled curved and very sturdy. Room that he disedikana an empty room and its appendages such as equipment life of prayer, Quran, and the bed. Many then believed that Diponegoro died in Makassar, and was buried there as well. But there is another opinion said the body did not exist in Makassar Diponegoro. Dutch move as soon as he died he was a secret place so as not to trigger a burst of fanatical followers among Java or there