‘Karangwangi’ Corridor Analysis as an Imaginary
Axis of Cirebon City
Yoyon Indrayana
1
, Hardi Warsono
2
{yo.indra@gmail.com
1
, hardie_wsn@yahoo.com
2
}
Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia
1, 2
Abstract. Cirebon city has experienced a long period of historical development. In that
period a lot of values and historical events that took place to form the characteristics of
the city that exists today. Even so the remnants of the past in the form of architectural
works, the wealth of art, tradition and culture still survive along with the development of
the era as the Living Monument. This makes the city of Cirebon very worthy to be called
the City of Cultural Tourism or the City of National Heritage, maybe even as a World
Heritage City. To be able to further enhance tourism in the city of Cirebon, contemporary
tourism destinations need to be developed to serve the desires and tastes of tourists.
Learn from other cities such as Yogyakarta which has Jl. Malioboro or Bandung which
has Jl. Asia-Afrika, it seems that the city of Cirebon has the potential to be developed as
well as the city of Yogyakarta and the city of Bandung. For this reason, there must be a
policy from the city government to make the 'Karangwangi' corridor as the orientation of
the morphological development of the city and the Landmark of the City of Cirebon.
Keywords: Heritage City, Cultural Tourism, Tourist Destinations, City Landmark.
1 Introduction
At the moment, if we look at the development of community activities in the city of
Cirebon, it looks increasingly rapid. Various economic activities are growing well along with
the better infrastructure in the city. Likewise, in the tourism sector, seen by the increasing
number of tourist arrivals that have an upward trend. The development of the city of Cirebon
as a tourist city, especially the city of cultural tourism, is in accordance with the Vision of the
Regional Head of Cirebon City today, which is "one heart to realize the city of Cirebon as a
creative city based on culture and history". Its mission, firstly, is to realize the quality of
human resources (HR) of Cirebon city that is competitive, cultured and superior in all fields,
secondly, to realize clean, accountable, authoritative and innovative governance, third, to
improve the quality of public infrastructure facilities with insightful environment, and
fourthly, creating conducive security and public order.
With an area of only approximately 38 km
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, consisting of 5 (five) districts and 22
(twenty-two) villages, Cirebon city has almost no natural resources except historical cultural
heritage which is quite complete and still well preserved today. is a relic of various historical
periods. Among those who left the most heritage buildings were the period of the Islamic
empire from the 15-16 century and the period of colonial rule in the 19th century [1]. In the
period of the Islamic kingdom the historical cultural relics that exist such as; Keraton
Kasepuhan, Kanoman Palace, Kacirebonan Palace, Keprabonan Palace, Gua Sunyaragi Water
ICIPSE 2019, October 21-22, Semarang, Indonesia
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DOI 10.4108/eai.21-10-2019.2294464