Taman Sari, Yogyakarta
Tumenggung Mangundipura; Javanese royal workshops · Yogyakarta, Indonesia · 1765
Taman Sari preserves parts of a former royal water garden in Yogyakarta. Pools, gateways, towers and underground passages form a dispersed architectural landscape within the present-day city. The surviving spaces reveal how water, privacy, ceremony and changing levels were used to organize a royal retreat. Visiting: Entry is ticketed; the surrounding kampung with its underground mosque can be walked freely.