Songgoriti Tourism Case Study

Since the 10th century, the area of Batu and its surroundings has been known as a resting place for the royal family, because the region is a mountainous area with a comfortable cool air, is also supported by the beauty of natural scenery as a characteristic mountainous area.
At the time of the reign of King Sindok, a kingdom officer named Mpu Supo ruled King Sendok to build a resting place royal family in the nearby mountains there are springs. With hard efforts, Mpu Supo finally found an area now better known as the Songgoriti Tourism area.
With the approval of the King, Mpu Supo who supposedly reportedly also sakti mandraguna began to build the area Songgoriti as a resting place of the royal family and the construction of a temple named
Cold springs are often used to wash the kris-magic as the heirlooms of the kingdom Spoon. Because the source of the springs are often used to wash the objects of the kingdom of magic and have supernatural power (Magic) is great terrible, finally the source of the spring that was originally cool and cool finally turned into a hot spring. And the source of hot water is until now an everlasting source in the Songgoriti Tourism area.
Batu City area located on the plateau at the foot of Mount Panderman with an altitude of 700 to 1100 meters above sea level, based on the stories of parents and existing documents or who tracked its existence, until now has not known the certainty about when the name "BATU" began to be called to name the rest area.
From some of the local community leaders have ever said that the title of Stone derives from the name of a cleric of Prince Diponegoro followers named Abu Ghonaim or referred to as Kyai Gubug Angin which further local people familiarly call it by calling Mbah Wastu. From the habit of Javanese culture that often shorten and shorten the name of a person who is considered too long, also for a shorter mention of it and faster when calling someone, finally gradually called Mbah Wastu called Mbah Tu be Mbatu or stone as a designation used for Cold City in East
For this reason at the beginning of the 19th century Stone developed into a tourist destination, especially the Dutch people, so the Dutch and even build places Rest (Villa) even settled in Batu.
Sites and buildings relics of the Netherlands or during the Dutch East Indies government even still traces and even become an asset and visit Tourism to date. Once the Dutch admiration for the beauty and beauty of the Stone, so that the Dutch aligned Batu region with a country in Europe that is Switzerland and gave the title as De Klein Switzerland or small Switzerland on the island of Java.
Architectural relics with European nuances and shades of Dutch colonialism in the form of a current building and beautiful natural scenery in the area of Batu had made Mr. Proclaimer as The Father Foundation of Indonesia, namely Bung Karno and Bung Hatta after the War of Independence to visit and rest area Selecta Batu.
History of Batu City Government
The establishment of Batu City as an autonomous region, can not be separated from the long historical journey, which is after East Java has Adm