Adelaide

Adelaide

The city of Adelaide, which is located at the Saint-Vincent-Golf, is the capital of the State of South Australia.

With an area of ​​1,836.9 km² it is the fourth largest city in Australia.

1,159,256 people live in Adelaide.

The first governor was John Hindmash.

He founded the town in 1836 and named it after the British Queen Adelaide, but Aborigines from the Kaurna tribe settled in the land long before the first Europeans arrived in Australia.

Adelaide is the first Australian city that did not arise from a prisoners camp.

Adelaide is also well known as the „City of Churches“.

The city has a Mediterranean climate with hot and dry summers and cold winters with 5°C -15°C.

Between December and February the temperature usually is about 28°C, but it can also reach about 40°C.

The town consists of a city center, which lies within the parkring.

Adelaide is divided into North Adelaide and Adelaide, which together have 17,500 inhabitants, but 250 villages are count to the city zone, too.

Colonel Light formed the city center, which is one square mile large, to create much open space and greenery.

The roads in the center are arranged in a grid.

The city center is surrounded by a green-belt, which is also known by the name State Heritage Listes Parklands.

Today the green-belt consists of many parks, gardens, picnic and sport areas.

Adelaide is also well known as the city of wine because six of Australia's top ten wines come from Adelaide. Here you can also find the Wine Centre of Australia.

Art Gallery of South Australia

The gallery was established in 1881 and opened first in two rooms.

With 38.000 works the Art Gallery has the biggest art collection in Australia.

There are works from the Antik Roman time to the Modern time.

You can see there Australian, European, North American and Asia works.

There are paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, textiles, furniture, ceramics, metal works and jewellery.

The European collection spans the Renaissance to today and the Asia collection covers twelve countries with galleries dedicated to the art of Southeast Asia, India, Japan and to the only Islamic dedicated gallery space in Australia.

In 1922 Art Gallery was the first gallery in Australia that began collecting works of photography.

Adelaide Festival Centre

Adelaide Festival Centre is a complex of theaters, bars and lodgings.

It is the scene for festivals and celebrations, theatre and opera performances, dances, musicals and cabaret shows. Also there are regular markets held on the premises. For the smaller visitors there is a children's theatre.

A special offer of the Centre is called "Behind the Scenes". On this tour you can go backstage and have a look at the changing rooms of the "stars".The Fesival Centre consists of several buildings. The Festival Theatre, which is the main building, was built in the 1970s and so it was almost built at the same time like the opera house in Sydney.

In the late 1970s all the buildings were completed.

Now it is not only the cultural center of Adelaide, but from whole South Australia.

In Adelaide Festival Centre always very well-known festivals take place, for example the Adelaide Cabaret Festival or the Festival of the Arts.

Festivals

Adelaide is also very well known as the „festival city“, because there are often regional wine- and music festivals. As well Adelaide has got good markets and restaurants. A famous street with a lot of restaurants is e.g. the Gouger Street.

On the Adelaide Central Market you can find delicious specialities from Tuesday to Saturday. With a wide range of fresh food you can nearly get everything: meat, seafood, gourmet cheese, fruit and vegetables, bakery products, sweets, nuts and health foods.

You can see how the cooks prepare and show their meals and you are able to take part on a cook-workshop ore on a guided tour to get to know more about the history of this market.
The market has existed for more than 140 years and every month over one million people come to visit it.

Moreover there are very popular festivals in Adelaide; e.g. the Fringe Festival, which is Australia’s biggest art festival.
It takes place every year from February to March and lasts three weeks. This festival is an open access-festival, so everyone is allowed to take part. In this three weeks the visitors can see street artists, bands and DJs with live-music, street theatres and art-, comedy- and dance shows. There are the world’s best jongleurs, magicians and acrobats.

There you can see a street artist, performing his show.

Another festival that Adelaide is famous for, is the WOMAdelaide. Since 1992 it is one of Australia’s most famous festivals.
On seven stages artists from the whole world perform spectacular shows in music, dance, theatre and acrobatics. The popular festival runs from 6pm to 1am on Friday, from 12noon until 1am on Saturday and from 12noon – 12midnight on Sunday.
More than 300 groups/artists have appeared there since 1992.

Every year many people come to join the groups. Most popular are the musicians.

St Peter’s Cathedral

One of the greatest, most beautiful and majestic churches in Adelaide is St Peter´s Cathedral. They certainly don't call this city the city of churches for nothing.

St Peter’s Cathedral is a landmark in the City of Adelaide and an important part of the city’s heritage. However, the Cathedral is much more than a beautiful historical building. It is also the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide.

St Peter's can be seen from all over Adelaide, situated on a hill just north of the city centre.

It includes people who travel from all over Adelaide to share in Cathedral life.

The foundation stone of this beautiful church was laid in 1869 yet the church was not complete with the internal and external facade you see until 1910.

Another little beauty in this church is the mix of contemporary and traditional British stained glass windows.

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Where it differs from traditional cathedrals is in it's modern stain-glassed windows, which contrast to the original windows portraying Christ's crucifixion and innumerable saints. The Magdalene Window, opposite the large crucifixion scene, is dedicated to the women who have influenced the church throughout its history. This window was designed and installed in 2001, when women got a part in Christianity.