Introduction Festivals Through The Seasons Market and Crafts Walk Your Way Through Hobart's History Parks, Playgrounds and Miniature Trains Wind Your Way Back a Century
Introduction
From
the balcony of Mount Wellington, Hobart spreads before you from the harbour
to the sea. White beaches on its outskirts, historic buildings at
its heart, Australia’s second-oldest city has a lifestyle of its own.
Food and festivals, shopping and sailing - there are endless ways to spend
your days in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Top
Festivals Through The Seasons
Hobart brims with creativity and celebrates with style. In and
around the greater Hobart area, from one season to the next, is a calendar
of special events and festivals - symphonies under the stars, theatre in
the gardens, dancing, food and wine. From Christmas to New Year on
the doorstep of the city at historic Sullivans Cove, it’s Summer Festival
time. The Taste of Tasmania begins, from daylight until dark.
Indulge in seafood and fine Tasmanian produce and see the fleet from the
famous Melbourne and Sydney-to-Hobart yacht classics, moored bow-by-bow
in Constitution Dock. Top
Market and Crafts
Browse through antique stores at Battery Point for something old or
unexpected or at galleries and markets for the work of Tasmania’s finest
artists and crafts people. Tables spill from street cafes and the
aroma of coffee lingers in the lanes of Salamanca Place, where rows of
Georgian warehouses have seen a century of traffic. On Saturdays
the umbrellas go up and two blocks of stalls and shops are bustling with
people and street buskers at the Salamanca Market. On Sundays, it’s
market day at the Gasworks Shopping Village. Spend the evening in
a restaurant dining on Tasmanian cuisine; catch a band at a local pub or
play the tables at Australia’s first licensed casino. Top
Walk Your Way Through Hobart's History
Many of Hobart’s historical attractions are within walking distance
of the wharves at Sullivans Cove and Hunter Street. Along the waterfront,
interpretative signs provide a physical and historical perspective of the
city’s early settlement.. Follow Kelly’s Steps near Salamanca Place
to Battery Point - once a mariner’s village - to streets to tiny cottages
and the grander homes of wealthy merchants. Stay in an historic guest
house. Call unto tea shops and antique stores and walk around the
ring of cottages in Arthur’s Circus. Stop by the Old Signal Station
where the original Mulgrave Battery was established, and at the Maritime
Museum for an insight into Hobart’s history as a whaling port. Visit
the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery to see early Tasmanian works of art.
Take a tour of the oldest operating brewery in Australia and the whisky
distillery. Drive to Risdon Cove, on the eastern side of the city,
to the site of the first landing of Europeans, which retains many of the
features of early settlement. Take in views of Hobart from the Bellerive
Bluff fort lookout. Top
Parks, Playgrounds and Miniature Trains
Enjoy Hobart’s beautiful parks and playgrounds which are dotted throughout
greater Hobart along the river’s edge. Spend a day in the magnificent
botanical gardens, or wander through St David’s Park. Walk among
the wombats and feed koalas and kangaroos at the wildlife park or pack
the boogie board and sun screen and head for the surf at one of many superb
beaches, just half an hour’s drive away. See Hobart from a high point
at the Mount Nelson Signal Station or ramble along the trails around Mount
Wellington and take in glorious views of the city and surrounds.
Visit the Tasmanian Transport Museum at Glenorchy and the city’s beautiful
Tolosa Park and the Swiss model village and railway at Claremont.
Pack your clubs and swing your way around seven golf courses, all in the
city of Clarence. Top
Wind Your Way Back a Century
The historic village of Richmond, 30 minutes’ drive from Hobart, has
held its place in time. Its streets of sandstone Georgian buildings
are a vivid reminder of its days as a former convict and military post.
Experience Richmond’s captivating charm and spend the day browsing through
history and the village’s superb craft and speciality shops, bakeries and
tea rooms. Visit the Old Hobart Town historical model village and
Australia’s oldest gaol, still standing in the centre of the village.
Fill a hamper and picnic by the Coal River beneath the oldest surviving
bridge in the nation, or cross the bridge to a copse of English trees and
Australia’s oldest Catholic church, which has stood since 1836. Top
