Gorontalo features some of the best-preserved colonial houses in
Sulawesi. The city's local hero is Nani Wartabone, an anti-Dutch
guerilla, and there is a large statue of it dressed like a boy scout in
the sports field adjacent to the Hotel Saronde. Nani Wartabone Monument
is built in 1987 during Drs. A. Nadjamudin government as Gorontalo
governor. This monument stay in front of Gorontalo Province Governor's
house on duty. This monument built to remind Gorontalo public historic
events on 23 January 1942.
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