Gold has been bringing visitors to Ballarat since 1851. The first visitors here were miners in search of their fortune. Visit today and will have a golden experience of a different kind. Ballarat is located just over an hour from Melbourne and you will be delighted by its majestic architecture including baroque mansions and Georgian homes, wide tree lined streets, great restaurants, colourful gardens and art and craft galleries.
Start your discovery of Ballarat at its most famous landmark-Sovereign Hill. Built on a 25-hectare site, Sovereign Hill is receated township of the 1850's Gold Rush era. The emphasis of the township is on craftsmen in traditional costumes working machinery from the era, exhibitions and visitor participation.
Sovereign Hill is the place to go to find a special present, some great sweets and enjoy a good meal. On main street you will find numerous shops (there are over 60 shops throughout the entire site), two hotels plus a theatre and in the backstreets you will find houses, huts, small factories and paddocks full of livestock. You can watch carriage builders, furniture manufacturers, jewellers, tinsmiths, metal spinners, blacksmiths, candle makers and sweet makers in action. It does not stop there, you can alsosee muskets being fired, go bowling 1850's style and watch a $90.000 pure gold ingot being poured. Other great attractions at Sovereign Hill include the Red Hill Mine, which offers a seld guided underground adventure into the dark and dangerous world of deep lead mining, or try the guided Sovereign Quartz Mine Gold Tourwhich includes a thrilling train ride through the mine's darkened tunnels. Make sure you visit the Gold Museum entry to this included with your entry to Sovereign Hill.
If you want to take home a golden momento try your hand panning for gold at Red Hill Gully Creek. It's regularly salted with fine alluvial gold. The Red Hill Gully digginds capture the mad times of the 1850's when social values, work habits and family relationship were violently upturned. This period gave birth to the Eureka Rebellion, which is captured in the very popular evening sound and light show, Blood on the Southern Cross, Eureka was Australia's only armed uprising and totally automated show takes place across the entire museum with numerous fantastic special effects including the burning of Bentley's Eureka Hotel.
If you are interested in learning more about Eureka uprising consider a visit to Eureka Centre and then join the 3.5 km Eureka Trail which follows the mute Government forces took. It is the perfect way to end your day in Ballarat, a town steeped in history and beauty.
Labyrinth of Gold
Sovereign Hill celebrates these school holidays with a "Journey through the Labyrinth of Gold". Visitors are encouraged to go deep underground and experience life as an 1850's miner.
Ride their new inclined railway through mines and tunnels. The Gold Museum is joining in on the fun too with a special 'Passport to Treasure". Follow the clues for a golden surprise! There is a limited capacity for this tour so purchase your tickets fast. Phone +61 3 5337 1100
Getting there
Ballarat is located north-west of Melbourne and is easily eccessible by car, train or tour coach. If you are travelling by car, Ballarat is just over an hour's drive from Melbourne along the Western Highway.
(Where Melbourne)
Sovereign Hill is the place to go to find a special present, some great sweets and enjoy a good meal. On main street you will find numerous shops (there are over 60 shops throughout the entire site), two hotels plus a theatre and in the backstreets you will find houses, huts, small factories and paddocks full of livestock. You can watch carriage builders, furniture manufacturers, jewellers, tinsmiths, metal spinners, blacksmiths, candle makers and sweet makers in action. It does not stop there, you can alsosee muskets being fired, go bowling 1850's style and watch a $90.000 pure gold ingot being poured. Other great attractions at Sovereign Hill include the Red Hill Mine, which offers a seld guided underground adventure into the dark and dangerous world of deep lead mining, or try the guided Sovereign Quartz Mine Gold Tourwhich includes a thrilling train ride through the mine's darkened tunnels. Make sure you visit the Gold Museum entry to this included with your entry to Sovereign Hill.
If you want to take home a golden momento try your hand panning for gold at Red Hill Gully Creek. It's regularly salted with fine alluvial gold. The Red Hill Gully digginds capture the mad times of the 1850's when social values, work habits and family relationship were violently upturned. This period gave birth to the Eureka Rebellion, which is captured in the very popular evening sound and light show, Blood on the Southern Cross, Eureka was Australia's only armed uprising and totally automated show takes place across the entire museum with numerous fantastic special effects including the burning of Bentley's Eureka Hotel.
If you are interested in learning more about Eureka uprising consider a visit to Eureka Centre and then join the 3.5 km Eureka Trail which follows the mute Government forces took. It is the perfect way to end your day in Ballarat, a town steeped in history and beauty.
Labyrinth of Gold
Sovereign Hill celebrates these school holidays with a "Journey through the Labyrinth of Gold". Visitors are encouraged to go deep underground and experience life as an 1850's miner.
Ride their new inclined railway through mines and tunnels. The Gold Museum is joining in on the fun too with a special 'Passport to Treasure". Follow the clues for a golden surprise! There is a limited capacity for this tour so purchase your tickets fast. Phone +61 3 5337 1100
Getting there
Ballarat is located north-west of Melbourne and is easily eccessible by car, train or tour coach. If you are travelling by car, Ballarat is just over an hour's drive from Melbourne along the Western Highway.
(Where Melbourne)
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