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Hobart
View of Hobart city centre and Mount Wellington as seen from Hobart marina
Originally known as Hobart Town, Hobart is Australia's second oldest city (after Sydney), and is beautifully situated on the Derwent River and has preserved many of its elegant colonial Georgian architecture.
Some key places of interest to visitors include:
Salamanca Place: a row of sandstone warehouses which once hosted the colony's trade and now feature shops, restaurants, galleries and nightclubs
Battery Point: from the 1830s this was the centre of the port area with many sailors, shipwrights, fishermen and merchants living and working there.
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: this museum includes exhibitions on Aboriginal life, on life in colonial times, and on the Tasmanian tiger (now believed to be extinct) and on the megafauna (giant marsupials) that once lived in Tasmania.
Cascade Brewery: Australia's oldest brewery and one which still produces some of Australia's finest beer