South Australia

Named after King William IV’s queen, Adelaide is a gracious, well-planned city of gardens, historic, restored colonial pubs, churches and modern buildings. The city centre has a superb setting surrounded by open parkland separating the business heart form the suburbs, and the entire city is sheltered on a narrow coastal plain between the protective ring of the Adelaide Hills and Gulf St Vincent, 10 kilometres to the west.

The South Australian capital, Adelaide is home to more than one million people. There are more restaurant places per head here than anywhere else in Australia. It's where an office is as likely to be in a gracious Victorian or Edwardian building as in a modern tower, and where homes of the colonial era are lovingly preserved, their verandahs and gracious ironwork - Adelaide lace - intact. It's a planned city and the designer, Colonel William Light laid out the parklands which garland it and the squares and gardens which grace it back in 1836. It's where cafes and designer shops reside in buildings of a bygone era.

Shopping in Adelaide centres on Rundle Mall, an attractive paved area noted for its outdoor cafes, trees and modern sculpture. Here you can be entertained by buskers and the passing parade. About 10 km north-west of the city is Port Adelaide. Many of the working port’s 19th century buildings have been restored and its award-winning Maritime Museum is set in seven separate locations. Including the lighthouse, over a concentrated area ideal for walking. other attractions include, Port Dock Station Railway Museum and the Historical Aviation Museum.

Adelaide is where every two years they devote three weeks to one of the world's most dazzling arts festivals, just one of South Australian's feast of festivals. North Terrace is a boulevard of galleries and museums flowing into serene green botanic gardens. Rundle Street, parallel with it, is lined with cafes, bars and restaurants. Put them together and you have typical Adelaide.

Adelaide is where you're only twenty minutes from the tranquillity of the Adelaide Hills or from a terrace on a beach watching the sunlight sparkling on the sea. It's where you can shop at leisure in the city's Mall that was a main street, hunt through designer boutiques, take in the bustle of the Central Market, a product market unlike any other, or party into the small house. Home of a million-plus people, café society, designer shopping and vibrant nightlife. Adelaide is what a city is meant to be. Framed by parklands, hills and sea, it's green, wide and welcoming.

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