Cultures and Traditions of Pekalongan Regency

Pekalongan is one of the cities in the Central Java. It is included in the governance territory of the Province of Central Java, which is located in Semarang. Pekalongan has some charactereristics that shows, Pekalongan different from other country. Pekalongan has a predicate as the Batik city, even though the batik offered in there is not the traditional and has high value of philosophy like the batik from Javanese Kingdom that is of course the price will be very expensive, this city is famous for the low price batik and have the good quality of batik.

Once you get there make sure you buy batik as the souvenir to be brought home, because the batik shopping in Pekalongan is a shopping attraction and interesting place you should visit. Besides shopping attraction Pekalongan also famous as the coast city, there are many beautiful beaches should be visit in Pekalongan, like Slamaran beach, Pasir Kencana beach, or dupan Water Park.

Since Pekalongan is located in Central Java, the traditional Javanese culture is very easy to find here, there are Syawalan and Sedekah Bumi. Syawalan is Muslims culture in Pekalongan to celebrate something important day according to the Islam month, and Sedekah Bumi is an offering ceremony to celebrate the year without disaster and float the offerings to the sea.

Fristly is batik as the symbol of Pekalongan. We can found out batik whenever when we going to Pekalongan, because almost citizents of Pekalongan as a producen of batik. There are some batik special from Pekalongan.