Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion Penang (Blue Mansion)
The island of penang is one of those places that has a lot of historical tourism. In this city there are many heritage buildings in the past that are still preserved to this day. Similarly, with the legacies of Chinese immigrants who still maintained up to now. One of them is Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion located at 14 Leith Street, 10200 George Town, Penang.
This historic mansion was built in 1880 by Cheong Fatt Tze, Chinese merchants. Total has 38 rooms, 7 ladder and designed with attractive style. Arsitekturanya derived from a period Su Chow China. Other features of great interest is a ubinnya made of clay with geometric and square-shaped pieces.
This home was built with attention to the aspects of Feng Shui because it is so habitual residents of China when it wanted to build a house or other building. The mansion has a dominant color of blue that is the result of mixing lime with natural blue dye. The blue color is very popular among the colonial where the blue dye is usually imported directly from India to Penang. As for mixing the lime is to keep paint walls resistant to a wide variety of hot and cold weather.
Over time, the dominant Blue House was later purchased by a local businessman Cheong Fatt early owners of the Yangtze in 1989 with the aim to save the existence of the possibility of building demolition. Indeed often old buildings without regard to more aspects of kesejarahannya uninstalled it for commercial buildings.
This mansion managed to get an award from UNESCO, never be used as a filming location won the Oscar, namely Indochine Starring Catherine Deneuve. It has also been broadcast mansions by some foreign television stations such as CNN, BCC, The History Channel and Discovery Travel and Living.
So, You have to visit here!