Hotel Tugu Bali

Hotel Tugu Bali

Hotel Tugu Bali Aerial by Jerome Courtial Canggu, Bali, Indonesia/Hotel Tugu Bali recounts the most romantic tales, folklores, and legends of Indonesia – one room at a time. Each room is individually created by the owner, displaying his immaculate attention to detail reconstructed to provide a perfect marriage of colour, texture and atmosphere.The design, stunning and dramatic, is blended together with a vast, eclectic collection of antiques from all over Asia, capturing a vibrant spirit and a passion for the art, soul and romance of Indonesia. Once upon a time, there was a young, poor medical student in Java with a passion for Indonesian antiques and history. One day an elderly European professor, who majored in the legend of Ramayana, hired him as a guide to take him to meet a stranger.The meeting place had a lonely stretch of sandy beach with the most beautiful sunset he had ever seen, adjacent to miles and miles of green paddy fields with an ancient temple in the middle. At twilight, he saw the stranger handing an object to the professor. It was a Cupu Manik – a 16th century stone bowl of three parts from where a priest used to sprinkle holy healing water over sick villagers. The student realized the priceless cultural value of the Cupu Manik, despite being new to the antique world. .Several years later, the poor student become a professional antiquarian, still searching in vain for the Cupu Manik. One evening, when visiting an antique-lover friend he saw it – the very same one he had seen in the professor’s hands. Through a lot of efforts and cost, he managed to get the Cupu Manik back. Hotel Tugu Bali, located on the beach where he first saw the Cupu Manik for the first time, is now the current home of this precious artefact. The student is the founder of Tugu Hotels, Exotic Spas and Restaurants, a small privately owned and designed collection of luxury art hotels and restaurants with a mission to bring back to life the art, soul and romance of Indonesia’s yesteryears.Today, his vast collection of Indonesian art and antiques are housed exclusively in these beautiful boutique museum hotels and restaurants for the world to experience. Immerse yourself in the romantic stories and legends of ancient Indonesian kingdoms and be a part of history that you can touch and feel.A true love story never ends.Tugu, in Indonesian language, means ‘monument’. Tugu Hotels are small privately owned and designed collection of luxury art hotels born out of one man’s love and passion for Indonesia’s romantic history. Tugu Hotels’ founder, Anhar Setjadibrata, once upon a time a medical student-turned-lawyer, and now the owner of the biggest collection of fine Indonesian art and cultural antiquities in Indonesia, designed these beautiful boutique museum hotels to house his antiques and to share with the world the romantic stories and legends of ancient kingdoms of Indonesia. . Hotel Tugu Bali Aerial by Jerome Courtial

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