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Ijen Boulevard (Ijen Straat) in Malang


A pretty street with palm trees and a garden in the middle. The sentence may be used by many people to describe the condition of Ijen roads in the city of Malang. One cause of the title as a beautiful city and beautiful for no other Malang obtained thanks to the way this one.

As a region that is a landmark for the city of Malang, the Ijen is one of the places visited or simply bypassed by tourists when this city. The beauty of this path to grow perfect with some points that can be used to relax and take pictures. Since it was first built, the title as a beautiful street never escape from this place.

Ijen street itself is a masterpiece of a Dutch architect who is quite famous, Ir Thomas Karsten. With regard beauty as well as connectivity with other parts of the city, Karsten began designing road Ijen as a luxury residential area for many officials. Development of this area was conducted by Karsten in 1935 with the appropriate city planning until 1960.

Shape their own way made into a boulevard, the twin road with a barrier of the park in the middle. On the right and left are also given a palm tree to beautify the appearance of the street. The houses in the street Ijen itself at that time was inhabited by officials of the Dutch East Indies.

The houses in Ijen itself is built with the type of villa. The building is usually only consists of one floor to the ceiling and the roof is quite high and steep. The shape was made for adjusting the air of Malang pretty cool and high rainfall. In addition the design of each house also features a garden. Forms of this building can still be found on some houses in Ijen example in a corner between the street and the street of Pahlawan Trip.

The park was also built to restrict home with pedestrian paths. Besides, between the pedestrian lane to the road by the park passed a row of palm trees. Structuring roads and accesses to the streets around like Semeru, Kawi, Salak (now the Pahlawan Trip) also is of considerable concern both in beauty and convenience.

The beauty of this road increased with the church on the corner of the street Ijen with thunder and Buring. Currently, the area is also a very favorite spot for many people to take pictures. Various beauty that is owned by the Ijen is now a cause of planning quite beautiful and right in the past. No wonder that in the past Ijen area was once called the most beautiful region in the Indies.

In its development, the Ijen little different than the past. Most noticeably is changed of many homes as well as the more dense the volume of vehicles using them. But everything was still not reduce the charm of this road as one of the most beautiful and has a wonderful arrangement. Of course the beauty of these forms as well as a wide range of repertoire relic of the Dutch East Indies in the region need to be maintained so that the beauty of Ijen not only be history.

Major road or boulevard Ijen Ijen is a green line that decorate Bougenvil flowers and palm trees against the background of the Dutch colonial-style housing. There is also a military museum that stores the traditional and modern weapons ever be used in the war of independence.

Jalan Ijen well-known as a forerunner to the city of Malang. wide streets and broad is the hallmark of Jalan Ijen than that in the middle between the two roads separated by green and beautiful garden.

In Jalan Ijen is a green line that decorate Bougenvil flowers and palm trees against the background of the Dutch colonial-style housing. Museum of TNI store traditional and modern weapons ever be used in the war of independence.

Every year this road is often used as a place of a regular activity that became an icon of the city's newest tourist destination, Festival of Malang Tempoe Doeloe or Malang Kembali. Is an annual event held every eve of the Anniversary of Malang, on April 1. This event is held during the first week aims to encourage the public and tourists nostalgic for the life of the city of Malang in 1947. Ijen street is closed to all types of modern vehicles ranging from Roundabout Simpang Racing until at the end of Jalan Kawi. Road segment is divided into three blocks, namely, blocks the struggle, blocks and blocks of colonial tradition. The event offered in it like a photographic exhibition and archive documentary, stage traditional entertainment, mobile terminals and antique vehicles, roving Ijen rose gig, free medical treatment, market hawker people, toys and children's games of the past, step on the screen a documentary, an old photograph giant, race costumes, poetry and song tempo first child.

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