Tugu,
in Indonesian Malay language, means ‘monument'. Whereas
the first Tugu in East Java received its name for its location
facing the central monument in the downtown colonial-era Malang
in East Java, now the Tugu Hotels & Exotic Spas in Bali,
Lombok, Blitar and Malang, all stand as monuments of forgotten
art, culture and romance of the thousand-years-old Indonesian
archipelago. The creation of all of these luxury boutique hotels
are forever surrounded by romantic history. The Hotel Tugu Bali,
for example, 15 minutes from Seminyak and 10 minutes from Kerobokan
and the famous Tanah Lot temple, has been constructed in the
serene, magical sunset beach of Canggu, to house a priceless
artwork that Tugu's proprietor Anhar Setjadibrata had found
at this very same beach, when he was a poor student in the 1960s.
Now the homes of the thousands pieces of private Southeast Asian
art and antique collection of Anhar, the Tugu Bali, Lombok,
Malang, and Blitar, quietly present to the world the real romance
of Java, Bali and Lombok. |
