A huge cone
Like a mountain or rice cone.
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A monument and museum shaped like a huge cone, recalling a mountain or a traditional rice cone, rising in a broad park with a lake in north Yogyakarta, commemorating the Dutch army's withdrawal from Yogyakarta in 1949, when the city was capital of the young Indonesian republic. Its name means Yogya returns. The first floor is a museum of weapons, documents and uniforms from the war of independence; the second is a circular gallery of dozens of lifelike dioramas telling the events; and at the top is a calm hall of remembrance for the fallen. Relief carvings surround the monument, and the park suits a stroll. Tickets are modest; it opens by day, and evening light shows are sometimes held in the park. It suits history lovers and families, taking one to two hours, and lies on the north ring road, on the way to Mount Merapi.
Like a mountain or rice cone.
A circular gallery.
Yogya in 1949.
North Ring Road, north Yogyakarta
The Indonesian government moved there during the independence war from 1946 to 1949 after Jakarta was occupied, backed by its sultan, making it the republic's temporary capital.