2-Hour Hills, Square, & Parklands Tour Of Adelaide
Highlights
Adelaide
architectural, historical, Story Telling
Private Tour
2 Hours
Easy
English
Description
Tour the beautiful North Adelaide that overlooks the rest of the city during this 2-hour tour. Start walking from Wellington Hotel in Wellington Square, through North Area and view the houses around the area. Also visit the Bishop's residence, churches and the former Rectory while learning about the man who designed this Australian city.
Itinerary
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Explore the Old City of Adelaide
- Learn about the history of Adelaide and how Wellington Square was named.
- View some of some historic terrace houses.
- Make your way to a former private boy's college that has now been converted into a Lutheran Seminary.
- Walk past Gables House and Belmont House.
- Head to Kingsmead, an imposing mansion once owned by the influential Bagot family, who came originally from Ireland during the 1830s.
- Tour Duncraig, built in the late 1890s. This was formerly owned by a highly successful pastoralist and chief engineer who supervised the transformation to electric trams in the early 1900s.
- Hear about the history of the building that is now used as the Royal College of Surgeons headquarters.
- Admire the three historic buildings which make up Bishop's Court, Christ Church and the former Rectory. Bishop's Court has been the residence of every Anglican bishop in Adelaide since the 1850s.
- Move to Colonel William Light's statue known as Light's Vision, the man who designed and laid out the plan for this city.
- Pass by the site where the first public hanging took place in Adelaide during the 1830s.
- Stop at Carclew, a historic mansion where one of Australia's foremost explorers, John McDouall Stuart, left on one of his expeditions north to open up pastoral and settlement land to Darwin.
- See Adelaide's fourth-largest former private hotel, which is now a residential complex.
- Visit the worker's cottages dating from the 1850s originally.
Conclude your tour at Wellington Square.
What's Included
What's Excluded
Know Before You Go
Meeting Point
Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price
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| 1 to 4 | /person |
| Child | |
| 1 to 4 | /person |
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This is a private tour |
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