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Tourism in Indonesia is currently overseen by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism International tourism campaigns have been focusing largely on its tropical destinations with white sand beaches, blue sky, and cultural attractions. Beach resorts and hotels have been developed in some popular tourist destinations, especially Bali island as the primary destination. At the same time, the integration of cultural affairs and tourism under the scope of the same ministry shows that cultural tourism is considered an integral part of Indonesia’s tourism industry, and conversely, that tourism is used to promote and preserve the cultural heritage.

Makassar has several famous traditional foods. The most famous is Coto Makassar. It is a stew made from the mixture of nuts and spices with beef parts which include beef brain, tongue and intestine.

In addition, Makassar is the home of pisang epe, or pressed bananas. These are bananas which are pressed, grilled, and covered with palm sugar sauce and sometimes eaten with Durian. Many street vendors sell pisang epe, especially around the area of Losari beach.

In Makassar culture, traditional clothing is one aspect that is important. Not only serves as an ornamental body, but also as the completeness of a traditional ceremony. The meaning of dress here is the following clothing accessory worn in a variety of traditional ceremonies such as marriage, pick-up guests, or holy days and other traditional. Basically, the existence and use of indigenous dress in a certain ritual would symbolize the majesty of the ceremony itself.

(Benteng Ujung Pandang) is one of the cultural and historical attractions in Makassar. Location right in front of the pier recreation Kayangan Island. Shaped like a turtle that extends to the sea. The building is easily recognizable because it is very striking with the architecture of a different era in 1600 with home and office diseputarnya. Walls are solid black moss rose almost as high as five meters, and the original entrance still like its heyday

Entering the main door of the small-sized, we will soon be served by the shades of the past. A very strong thick walls, wooden doors, old bolts, will be obvious. Rotterdam Fortress made the Cultural Center of the government offices so that the cleanliness and tidiness Makassar environment is still fairly well preserved. If we stay in the area around the beach Losari, then the distance is within the range of 2 km radius of the course.

This fort was originally built in 1545 by the king of Gowa to X ie Tunipallangga Ulaweng. Initial raw materials of stone walls of the fort is mixed with burnt clay to dry. Building a house inside is filled by a typical stage where the kings of Gowa and the family settled in it. When switching on the kings of Gowa to XIV, the castle walls and then replaced with a black rock hard Rock.

Dutch presence that controls the area around the banda and embarrassment, then made the Dutch decided to conquer commercial fleet VOC Gowa that can easily go in and docked here. Since year 1666 the first burst of war between the king of Gowa in the citadel of the ruling with the Dutch authorities Speelman. More than a year battered by the Dutch fort. Ravaged the whole fort, inside the king’s house was burned by the army destroyed the enemy. This defeat forced the king to make the Netherlands signed an “agreement Bongaya” on November 18, 1667.

Speelman later decided to settle there with rebuilding and restructuring of buildings there to be tailored to the needs of the Dutch architectural tastes. Early forms of a similar rectangular box surrounded by five bastion, change get an extra one another bastion on the west side. Besides the fort’s name changed to Fort Rotterdam, the birthplace of Gen. Dutch Cornelis Speelman Gub.

One of the famous attractions here than to see the castle, is to visit Prince Diponegoro tiny jail space when discarded by the Dutch from Java caught on the ground. Diponegoro War broke out between the years 1825-1830 who ended with Prince Diponegoro dijebaknya by the Dutch when he joined the peace talks. Diponegoro was later arrested and exiled to Manado, then in 1834 he was transferred to Fort Rotterdam. He was alone housed in a curved-walled prison cell, and very strong. Room, he provided an empty room and complement others such as equipment life of prayer, Quran, and bed.

Fort Rotterdam in the complex, there is the Museum of La Galigo which is a replica Gowa royal government center. One of the most famous literary manuscripts written on papyrus sheets 3,500 sheets entitled I La Galigo. I La Galigo papyrus manuscript was crowned as the longest ever in the history of Indonesia.