MENGUNGKAP BANGUNAN BERSEJARAH UNTUK MEMBANGKITKAN WISATA SEJARAH DAN BUDAYA DI SEMARANG

Revealing Historic Building To develop HistoricalAnd Cultural Tourism in Semarang

Abstract

Many historic  buildings  in Semarang  are precious  assets of Indonesia. Mostly those buildings  are inherited from Dutch Colonialism  era. They were government  and private buildings,  and even the buildings.which were belonged  by personal at that time. Due to the history of this nation,  those buildings  mean a lot. They are so precious  for Indonesia Old City Area can reveal the very first sight ofSemarang  city when Dutch built it.This area had very neat infrastructure   and it was organized  very well. There is a famous  old building  called  Gereja Blenduk. Itwas builts in Portuguese  colonialism,  then it was completed  by Dute. Another buildings which are out of Old City Area are Lawang Sewu, De Vredestein, Du Pavilion Hotel and Elisabeth Hospital. This research is aimed to rememorize  and to motivate  Semarang  citizen to love their city more. In that way, they will give their contribution,  for example, they participate themselves in the renovation of these historic buildings or to develop them. And at last these buildings can be as goals for tourism destination. To gain the purpose of the research, researcher gathered  data whether written or spoken from library research and interview. He also made a cross check by doing serial interviews. After that, he selected the data, the verified them according to the scientific historical writing standard. It was done to get data which meet validity aspect.