About Adelaide
Adelaide is an elegant city that has preserved its heritage and links with the past and offers a wealth of tourism experiences that are readily accessible from the city. Adelaide is not only South Australia’s premier tourist destination but also a true gateway to the many other tourist regions within the state.
Adelaide is superbly equipped to provide a focus for the 'good living' tourism experience with which the state is so closely associated. The food and wine experience starts right in the city centre with the National Wine Centre, Adelaide Central Market, vibrant cafes, restaurants boasting some of Australia’s best chefs and events such as Tasting Australia.
GETTING HERE
Adelaide is easily accessed by air from all Australian capital cities and international destinations. With its central location, Adelaide is the perfect gateway to much of Australia, especially the Outback. Major coach companies link Adelaide to other capital cities and Adelaide is also the hub for rail access across Australia. For more traveller's tips visit the Official Tourism Website for Adelaide
FOOD AND WINE
In Adelaide, you’ll find entire streets devoted to dining: each a mix of cafés, pubs and restaurants. Stylish Rundle Street East is given over to alfresco dining; a vibrant food, wine and coffee experience not to be missed. Set alongside the Central Market, Gouger Street hosts great seafood and Asian cafés and restaurants. Across the River Torrens in North Adelaide, O’Connell and Melbourne Streets ‘do’ fine dining and café society side by side.
No surprises that there is a wide range of restaurants and cafés along the coast, perfect for holiday picnics, long lunches and sunset dinners.
The city’s nearest winery cellar doors are on the plains or nestled in the foothills. Due east and only 15 minutes from the GPO, Penfolds Magill Estate is the birthplace of Australia’s most famous wine, Grange. Visitors can take a guided tour of this beautiful historic winery and visit the tasting room.
SHOPPING
Rundle Mall is the retail backbone of the CBD, with international and national flagship stores and boutiques, local institutions and specialty shops, cafes, elegant arcades, buskers, flower stalls, lots of sculpture and seven-day trading.
In the centre of the square mile, the Adelaide Central Market is always fun. With dozens of fresh food and speciality stalls, Asian grocery stores and a host of excellent cafés and food halls, you're sure to find any number of unique South Australian products.
King William Road at Hyde Park is great for fashion and design, while Glen Osmond Road at Eastwood is the centre for seconds and clearance shops. The Parade at Norwood is much loved by locals and visitors.
Beach side, always-busy Jetty Road at Glenelg is a good excuse to mix shopping with a stroll on the beach while Harbour Town at West Beach contains over 50 quality brand outlets.
And the ever-popular suburban shopping centres at Tea Tree Plaza, West Lakes and Marion have enough shops to browse and things to do to take up a whole day.
HERITAGE
Adelaide is laid out on a square mile grid of wide streets with gracious colonial architecture. It has many restored Victorian and Edwardian buildings scattered throughout the city.
Before Europeans arrived, the part of the continent that is now South Australia was homeland to more than 10,000 people living in more than 50 different language groups. Adelaide is the perfect place for visitors to be introduced to the rich culture and history of the Australian Aboriginal.
Source: South Australia Tourism Commission, http://www.adelaide.southaustralia.com/home.asp