Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Kota BukitTinggi

Special symbols and Bukittinggi West Sumatra has a unique story and journey in history. This can be from the ornaments on the Jam Gadang. In the Dutch colonial period, this clock-shaped ornament, and rounded at the top of the statue standing cock. During the Japanese occupation, hours turned into jewelry pagoda. While in the period after independence, ornamennya shape changed with the return of gonjong traditional Minangkabau house. The numbers on the day also has its own uniqueness. Figures on the number four is usually written with the Roman IV, but the clock with IIII Gadang listed.
Clock tower of Gadang, the tourists can see a panorama of the city of Bukittinggi consists of hills, valleys, and building a line in the middle of my city to be missed.

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