Adelaide Main Street
Our proposed activity: Visit Adelaide
Beneath its somewhat austere appearance, Adelaide is an authentic and very welcoming city for lovers of good food and festivals (music, cinema, painting, shows).
Adelaide is indeed known for the quality and number of its restaurants!
But it also benefits from the qualities of all the territories of the State of South Australia that you can visit from the city:
Barossa and Clare valley, Coonawarra region and the Flinders Ranges National Park for example!
Adelaide Market
Central market during peak hours
Start your day with a hearty and excellent breakfast at the city's central market.
Open every day, it is the ideal place to taste the quality of the gastronomic specialties of South Australia: sweet white wines, cheeses of all styles, kangaroo steaks, and fresh breads!
It's a very nice place with lots of tastings and some local music!
You can also visit the famous chocolate factory Haigh's Chocolate. Guaranteed success with children!
the place of victoria square
Your walk will then take you to the main square of Victoria Square, in the center of the city.
Then further north, the city's various museums are spread along North Terrace.
The “South Australian museum”, for example, offers several exhibitions on the fauna and flora of the region, as well as an excellent collection of Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal paintings and objects.
To know ! Adelaide's origins
In front of the Adelaide Museum
Adelaide is often proud to be the only capital of Australia which does not have a penitentiary origin!
It was, in fact, born in 1836 from a project of "perfect colonization" imagined by a convict during his 3 years of incarceration!
The idea was to find the ideal price of land to balance the purchase of land by landowners and their farming by cheap immigrant labour.
This workforce, then earning enough to in turn buy land and hire new employees, the city was supposed to expand indefinitely without new financial contributions.
This attractive idea at first sight was unfortunately quickly overwhelmed by the real estate speculation of landowners, the unemployment of young workers and therefore the ruin of the municipal fund.
The colony was saved a few years later by the stubbornness of its governor and a new influx of Scottish labour.
Useful information
Adelaide Central Market is located at the crossroads of Gouger St and Gorge St.
The Haighs Chocolate Factory (Haighs Chocolate Visitors Centre) is located a few minutes from Adelaide.
Adelaide tourist information
Public transport in Adelaide
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