Vrederburg Castle

Vrederburg Castle placed in front of the Yogyakarta Sultan Palace and beside the monument of 5th March. This castle was built by VOC when Indonesia still colonized by Netherlands. This castle was built as the center of defense and government of Netherlands. This castle has trench around it and has observation tower in all the four corner. This castle now has changed into museum since it stores so many history in it.
This castle has so many history keep in it. That were all about story about the struggle of the Indonesian people to stop the colonization of Netherlands. In the museum, kept the picture of the heroes that fight for Indonesia, and the artificial of the weapons that used during the Netherlands colonization's time. There are also wax figure in mini size that designed to imitate the settings of some event that happen during the fight, there is also some back sound too if we insert coin.

Beside its role to give knowledge to peoples about the history of Indonesia, now Vrederburg Castle often become the place of some festivals or exhibition. Its actually a nice spot to take a picture too.