Hobart
Tasmania’s capital city is an intriguing blend of heritage and lifestyle, scenery and vibrant culture.
Hobart is warm sandstone, bright spinnakers on the water, fish punts at the docks, the slap of halyards on masts, coffee under the striped sun umbrellas of Salamanca, an occasional frosting of snow on Mt Wellington, bush tracks and birdsong. Hobart’s busy arts scene takes in art, craft, music and theatre. Here, you can enjoy Irish jigs or pub rock, a flutter at the Wrest Point casino, street buskers and string quartets, and theatrical performances both classic and contemporary. In Hobart’s galleries and studios, our artists and craftspeople make bold and beautiful statements in pigments, glass, pottery and fabrics.
It’s a city of fine restaurants, bustling markets, fun, festivals and entertainment. It’s a city of history where Battery Point’s first cottages peep shyly at each other across a circle of green, and graceful old trees shelter the manicured lawns of heritage parks and gardens.
Hobart is shaped and defined by water. Take a river cruise, or drive to the summit of Mt Nelson or Mt Wellington, and you’ll understand our maritime focus — suburbs hug the winding Derwent and city buildings cluster around the docks. On the sparkling harbour, ships are busy — Antarctic supply vessels and sailing dinghies, wave-piercing catamarans and kids in kayaks, ocean racers and nuggety cray boats, even a square rigger or two. Beyond is Storm Bay and the vast horizon of the Southern Ocean.
Twenty-five kilometres and 100 years from the busy city is the historic town of Richmond, with its fine Georgian architecture and memories of days gone by. In the narrow cells of Richmond Gaol, dusty sunlight gleams on chiselled stone, and Tasmania’s convict past seems just a clink of chains away. After your visit, take a stroll along the main street — inside yesterdays freestone cottages are the galleries and cafes of today, where you’ll discover the glow of watercolours and ceramic glazes, or the warm waft of fresh-baked scones.
Hobart is warm sandstone, bright spinnakers on the water, fish punts at the docks, the slap of halyards on masts, coffee under the striped sun umbrellas of Salamanca, an occasional frosting of snow on Mt Wellington, bush tracks and birdsong. Hobart’s busy arts scene takes in art, craft, music and theatre. Here, you can enjoy Irish jigs or pub rock, a flutter at the Wrest Point casino, street buskers and string quartets, and theatrical performances both classic and contemporary. In Hobart’s galleries and studios, our artists and craftspeople make bold and beautiful statements in pigments, glass, pottery and fabrics.
It’s a city of fine restaurants, bustling markets, fun, festivals and entertainment. It’s a city of history where Battery Point’s first cottages peep shyly at each other across a circle of green, and graceful old trees shelter the manicured lawns of heritage parks and gardens.
Hobart is shaped and defined by water. Take a river cruise, or drive to the summit of Mt Nelson or Mt Wellington, and you’ll understand our maritime focus — suburbs hug the winding Derwent and city buildings cluster around the docks. On the sparkling harbour, ships are busy — Antarctic supply vessels and sailing dinghies, wave-piercing catamarans and kids in kayaks, ocean racers and nuggety cray boats, even a square rigger or two. Beyond is Storm Bay and the vast horizon of the Southern Ocean.
Twenty-five kilometres and 100 years from the busy city is the historic town of Richmond, with its fine Georgian architecture and memories of days gone by. In the narrow cells of Richmond Gaol, dusty sunlight gleams on chiselled stone, and Tasmania’s convict past seems just a clink of chains away. After your visit, take a stroll along the main street — inside yesterdays freestone cottages are the galleries and cafes of today, where you’ll discover the glow of watercolours and ceramic glazes, or the warm waft of fresh-baked scones.