:bulletblue: Welcome to Surabaya :bulletblue:
Surabaya, provincial capital of East Java and Indonesia's second-largest city after jakarta, served for over half a millenium as trading port for the inland empires of Java. Situated at the mouth of Brantas River, the city was officially founded in 1293 when Raden Widjaja established Majapahit, Indonesia's most glorius empire on the site of a legendary battle between a shark (Sura) and crocodile (Baya).
Surabaya, known as the "City of Heroes" because of its role in the nation's independence struggle, has grown into an elegant city of large, colonnaded buildings bordering broad, tree shaded abenu