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It’s a lively place, with a waterfront that buzzes with action around the surrounding restaurants, pubs, cafes and clubs. Yet Hobart is a city of contradictions. It has all the advantages of city services but its population of 195,800 has retained a sense of community. So the locals are laid back and friendly despite their urban surroundings.

Shopping, nightlife, art and craft galleries and fine dining are popular, yet rainforest on adjacent Mt Wellington and a string of secluded beaches are within easy reach.

Enjoy a morning of wilderness and wildlife adventures and be back in the city for a lunch of local gourmet food and some of the world’s finest cool climate wines. In fact, you don’t even need to leave the city – slide into a sea kayak at Constitution Dock, to explore the sheltered inlets and bays of the Derwent River.

Getting the measure of Tasmania’s capital, Hobart, calls for a new way of looking at city life.

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Rated the world’s third most photogenic by readers of the Lonely Planet travel guide seriesDon’t be fooled by the beauty of the city – rated the world’s third most photogenic by readers of the Lonely Planet travel guide series – and its solid Georgian sandstone buildings. Hobart may be a photographers delight but scratch the surface and you discover it has a seamy past, built on convicts, merchants and seamen. This is Australia’s second oldest city, after Sydney, and you can touch the marks of a convict chisel on a public building, down a beer at a pub named after one of the colony’s corrupt ministers of the cloth, or stroll along streets of original workers’ cottages in Battery Point.

Bands, buskers and more than 300 stallholders gather every Saturday in the historic Sullivans Cove precinct for the city’s famed Salamanca Market, which sells everything from hand crafted wooden sushi trays to organic vegetables, alongside artist studios and cafes.

In summer, Hobart parties in honour of its strong maritime connections, with dockside festivals, the spectacular finish of an international blue water yacht classic, and a celebration of Tasmania’s traditional wooden boat building skills. It’s a city life but one without the city ways that are a stress elsewhere.

Walk the towns and cities of Tasmania and disappear into the shadow of convicts and bushrangers and their stories of harsh lives and heartbreak. Tasmania, then known as Van Diemen’s Land, was established in 1803 as a British penal colony and over the next 50 years, 73,500 convicts were transported from the opposite side of the world for crimes ranging from minor misdemeanours to political activities.

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ONE OF THE GREATEST 100 TRIPS OF THE WORLD TRAvEL AND LEISuRE 2008 YEAR BOOk3 HOuR WILDERNESS CRuISE Departs daily all year from Adventure Bay, Bruny Island.

FuLL DAY TOuR FROM HOBART Our scenic guided bus tour departs Hobart 8am daily. Includes Ferry crossing, morning tea, 3 hour wilderness cruise and lunch.

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Twenty five kilometres of country road and 100 years from Hobart is the historic town of Richmond, with its fine Georgian architecture impressively intact with memories of days gone by. En route to the Tasman Peninsula and Port Arthur, it’s an original village of slate and cobbles, handmade brick and mellow stone, cottages and manors.

You will marvel at historical gems unmatched elsewhere in Australia.

Stand in the cells of Richmond Gaol (1825), Australia’s oldest convict gaol, for a chilling insight into the existence of convicts, bushrangers and Aborigines imprisoned in Van Diemen’s Land.

Walk on the oldest bridge in Australia, built by convict labour between 1823 and 1825 for movement of military, police and convicts between Hobart and Port Arthur.

Wander in the cemetery of St. Johns Catholic Church (1836), Australia’s oldest remaining Catholic Church for fascinating glimpses of early settlement life. The Coal River Valley surrounding Richmond is an award winning wine producing region with a similar climate to the famous regions of France and Germany and boasts the largest concentration of privately owned vineyards in Tasmania.

The fascinating convict heritage lives on.Tasmania’s historic past is no dead and dusty creature – it’s a living, breathing spirit that reaches out from its place in time, everywhere you tread.

The fascinating convict heritage lives on, not just in the penal settlements and convict-built towns, but in the communities of descendants that continue to live on the island.

Thousands of years before Europeans first came ashore, Tasmanian Aborigines were the state’s sole inhabitants. A number of significant historic Aboriginal sites are visible today, predominantly in the north-east of the island.

From its position on the edge of the Great Southern Ocean Tasmania has rich maritime heritage: with colourful wharves, bustling fishing towns, and a strong marine science community working to manage this extraordinary resource.

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Salamanca PlaceLined with a row of Georgian sandstone warehouses, Salamanca Place is home to restaurants, artist studios, galleries and quaint cafes. Built in the 1830s, the grand warehouses date back to whaling days and once stored grain, wool, whale oil, apples and imported goods. Every Saturday, Salamanca Market brings this harbourside strip to life with the colourful stalls of Australia’s finest outdoor market.

The Salamanca MarketEnjoy the sights, sounds, flavours, action and colour of one of Australia’s best outdoor markets. Set between graceful plane trees and the mellow sandstone facades of historic warehouses, Hobart’s famous market at Salamanca Place attracts thousands of locals and visitors, every Saturday of the year. They come for the food and music – hot baked spuds, crisp organic vegetables, fresh fruit, the warm aromas of coffee and croissants; busker’s singing the blues, stroking a harp or strumming a lively folk song. They come for breakfast and bargains, scrambled eggs and orange juice at a Salamanca bistro, then a stroll along the hundreds of stalls, meeting friendly people who make or grow what they sell. Salamanca market highlights fine Tasmanian art and craft, hand-worked glass, innovative design in Tasmanian timbers, stylish clothing and bold ceramics. Meet world-renowned crafts people selling their creations. Looking for antiques, collectibles, books, curios, trash or treasure? Come and pick up a bargain or two. Saturdays in Hobart focus on the market to start the day or for an afternoon break, Salamanca is the place to be.

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Overlooking Hobart’s charming dock area, Mures Upper Deck a la carte restaurant is the perfect way to enjoy Tasmania’s world famous seafood.

Freshly caught on the Mures family boats and prepared to perfection Mures Upper Deck has made fine dining a fine art.

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Ninety minutes by road from Hobart, Port Arthur is the Australian emblem of the miseries of transportation and tranquil inlet contrast with legends of the penal settlement’s past.Hobart’s docks were the disembarkation point for many chained convicts, who arrived to the noise and bustle of a crowded cluster of warehouses, rowdy taverns and maritime workshops. The impressive Georgian warehouses have been recycled as restaurants, artists studios and galleries.

Touch the marks of a convict chisel on hand cut sandstone in the heritage village of Richmond and sense the severe conditions in which the prisoners toiled. Sit in the garden of remembrance at the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart and ponder the fate of the hundreds of women and children gaoled there – their hidden history only now emerging.

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Mount Wellington rises above Hobart, Tasmania’s waterfront capital, creating a bold backdrop to the city. At 1270 metres in height, the mountain offers superb views and on a clear day you can see the peaks rising from World Heritage wilderness of the south-west. You can take a walking track through temperate rainforest to sub-alpine flora or experience a thrilling mountain bike descent.

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NOVEMBER 2010

30/10-15 TASPRIDE FESTIVAL Multiple venues

1 BEST OF BAROqUE Federation Concert Hall

3-5 MATHINNA Theatre Royal

6-7 SUSTAINABLE LIVING ExPO Princes Wharf Shed No.1

9-13 RED SkY MORNING Backspace Theatre, Theatre Royal

11-13 PRINCESS Theatre Royal

13 TASMANIAN BEERFEST Princes Wharf Shed No.1

13 MY HOMELAND-HOBART Federation Concert Hall

17-18 TAIkOZ Theatre Royal

18 MUSICA VIVA TASMANIA PRESENTS ATOS TRIO Hobart Town Hall

24-27 SHEFFIELD SHIELD - TASMANIA vs SOUTH AUSTRALIA Bellerive Oval

25 BERND GLEMSER IN RECITAL Federation Concert Hall

26-27 TASMANIAN SONG COMPANY Hobart Town Hall

27 BERND’S BACk Hobart Federation Concert Hall

27-28 HANDMADE HOBART St Peter’s Hall

29 NEW WORLDS-HOBART Federation Concert Hall

DECEMBER 2010

26-1/1 ROLEx SYDNEY HOBART YACHT RACE kings Pier Marina

11 CHRISTMAS WITH TSO Federation Concert Hall

27-2/1 THE TASTE FESTIVAL Princes Wharf Shed No.1

29-2/1 HOBART COLLECTORS ANTIqUE FAIR Hobart City Hall

JANUARY 2011

7-15 MOORILLA HOBART INTERNATIONAL Domain Tennis Centre

23 RED HEARTS PINk RIBBONS LUNCHEON, BETFAIR HOBART GUINEAS RACE DAY Tattersall’s Park

28 GIRO TASMANIA Statewide

FEBRUARY 2011

11-14 AUSTRALIAN WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL Hobart Waterfront

14 AAMI HOBART CUP Tattersall’s Park

APRIL 2011

5-10 TARGA TASMANIA Multiple Venues

20-30 NOT THE NATMEET TOURNAMENT TOUR 2009 Multiple venues

22-25 HYDRO TASMANIA THREE PEAkS RACE Multiple Venues

JUNE 2011

5 TREADLIGHTLY ENVIROFEST 2010 Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens

5 THINk PINk RACE DAY 2011 Tattersall’s Park

AUGUST 2011

27-28 HOBART DOLL SHOW Hellenic Hall

OCTOBER 2011

19-22 ROYAL HOBART SHOW Glenorchy

NOTE:

The events in this calendar are drawn from the events calendar of www.discovertasmania.com.

Dates and events are subject to change and Events Tasmania cannot be held responsible for any changes to programming. It is recommended to check the website and the individual events website before making travel plans.

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Battery PointBattery Point is the historic heart of Hobart, named after the gun battery located on the point in 1818. The area still retains much of its former character, and features quaint cottages and narrow streets, popular restaurants and delightful bed and breakfast establishments. It is best to explore this significant area on foot, and you’ll find access down into Salamanca Place via historic kelly’s Steps.

Bruny IslandWith its sparse population and scenic beauty, it is little wonder that visitors and locals flock to Bruny Island. Joined by a sandy isthmus, you can head for the rolling green hills of North Bruny or the rugged sea cliffs and forested hills of South Bruny. Rich in heritage and wildlife, Bruny Island is just 20-minutes’ ferry ride from kettering, south of Hobart.

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