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Stunning Hobart is Australia's second
oldest capital city after Sydney.
Point and Salamanca are home to a
variety of thriving cafes, bars, pubs,
restaurants, shops and galleries.
Salamanca Market
The famous open-air Salamanca
Market (pictured below) has operated
every Saturday morning since 1972
and attracts craft vendors, artists,
buskers and all kinds of souvenir
hawkers. There’s fresh organic
produce, clothes, books, ceramics,
woodwork, antiques and excellent
food and drink. You name it – it’s
there! Grab a coffee and wander
through the labyrinth of stalls tasting
all kinds of cuisine along the way.
Rain, hail or shine it will go ahead –
don’t miss it!
Battery Point
Connecting Salamanca Place to
the old maritime village of Battery
Point is Kelly’s Steps. Built in 1839
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and named after James Kelly (the
A Brief History
Australian explorer) the steps are
estled amongst the colony at Risdon Cove on the eastern
foothills of the imposing shores of the Derwent River.
Mt Wellington, Hobart is
Britain’s jails continued to
Australia’s second-oldest city, after overflow in the 1820s and during this
Sydney. The region’s Indigenous period, thousands of convicts were
occupants were members of the shipped to Hobart to serve their
semi-nomadic Mouheneener tribe. sentences in dreadful conditions.
The local Aboriginal population The charming row of four-storey
was severely diminished after sandstone warehouses along
violent conflict with the European Salamanca date back to the 1830s
settlers, and the effects of diseases when it was the hub of Hobart’s trade
brought by them. The first European and business. Today, the historic
settlement began in 1803 as a penal areas around the waterfront, Battery
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somewhat of a local architectural
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