Sunyaragi Cave

 

 A unique site on the outskirts of Cirebon waiting for your visit . Castle Goa Sunyaragi , occupies an area of ​​15,000 m² , is the property of Kasepuhan Palace hereditary and partly on land owned by the Government of Cirebon . Its unique shape with cavities and winding hallways and resemble a dark cave to cave Sunyaragi make it known . The site was originally a Kelangenan Park ( pleasure garden ) or Taman Sari , the main function for berkhalawatan or seclusion , the park is also known Kelangenan Sunyaragi title ( ' sunya ' means silent , deserted ; ' yeast ' like sports ) .

Sacred impression that you will see coming from the halls of the former site of berkhalawat ( hermitage ) , bathing pools ( petirtaan ) , altars similar place of worship , and other archeological objects that are spiritual . More profane impression is supported by the presence of buildings and shape joglo kaningaran flower reliefs and objects of archaeological artifacts such as metal , wood and ceramics .Visually , the motive and the Mega Chance Wadasan is very dominating in most complex cave walls Sunyaragi . Pairs rock so arranged to form patterns and Mega Wadasan Chance . Then certain parts also equipped with vines motifs , either Patran and simbaran . On this site , motives and Mega Chance Wadasan believed to be a symbol of life . Mega symbolizes the sky or the air while Wadas which means rock symbolizes the earth . While the motives vines , statues of animals and humans symbolize the contents of the world that has the earth and the sky and its contents .In addition to the classic style atmosphere , Cave Sunyaragi equipped with such an ancient Chinese style carving kanigaran flower , peach flower shape , sun and lotus and attachment of Chinese ceramics in the wall is not too high . This is understandable , because when construction Sunyaragi Goa , gained a lot of support from the Chinese people , especially the descendants of followers of Miss Ong Tien Nio wife of Sheikh Sharif Hidayatullah ( Sunan Kalidjaga )