Kota Gede is the site of the remains of a palace Kraton in the late 1500s and early 1600s for the rulers of Mataram.
Legend and myth surround much of the information available for the time the palace was intact, and only the Royal Graveyard (precursor to Imogiri) and a few small sections of wall of the palace remain.
In the expansion of the city of Yogyakarta in the late twentieth century, Kota
