One of South Australia's earliest buildings and home to over 300 000 people from 1841 to 1988, Adelaide Gaol is one of Australia's longest operating prisons.

The classically styled freestone Adelaide General Post Office was constructed in the late nineteenth century and housed both the post and telegraph offices which connected Australia with the world

Botanic Park has blossomed as a place for informal family gatherings and a venue for public events

Brown Street, running from South Terrace to Grote Street, morphed into Morphett Street in 1967 but the area retains its out-of-the-way feel

The current hotspot for alternative and grunge music has a colourful criminal history

Relief for the poor, the pregnant and the unemployed was a theme from the colony’s commencement

Dunmoochin, built around 1858, was the home of Irish emigrants John and Honora Griffin and their three children. It is an example of the many workers’ cottages built in the West End. 

The East End Market was Adelaide’s first formal fruit and vegetable market. 

Despite an inauspicious start as a dumping ground for waste, the East Parklands gradually developed as an attractive centre for recreation in the city. 

A street in an area of contrasts - the rich, the poor, society figures, outcasts, business, leisure, health and education are associated with East Terrace

Edmund Wright House was built in 1878 as the headquarters of the Bank of South Australia. 

From dumping ground to pleasure gardens

From ‘City of Churches’ to the ‘City of Cars’, Flinders Street reflects changes in Adelaide

One of Adelaide’s oldest buildings, Government House welcomes thousands of visitors each year

Her Majesty’s Theatre and the Central Market continue to attract people to Grote Street

An eclectic mix since foundation, Hindley Street has seen it all

Holy Trinity Church is the earliest surviving Anglican Church building in South Australia, and one of Adelaide’s oldest standing structures.

The oldest of North Terrace’s cultural buildings

Celebration, commemoration and protest happen amid the grand buildings that line Adelaide's main thoroughfare

The 'University Building' has served many functions since it opened in 1882

North Terrace east is Adelaide’s premier cultural boulevard

Stretching from Adelaide’s first survey point to Parliament House, the character of this part of North Terrace continues to evolve

The site of countless debates, Old Parliament House dates from 1855

Built in 1877 as a greenhouse for tropical plants, the Palm House was immediately hailed as the pride of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, and even of the city of Adelaide itself. It was the prized achievement of Dr Richard Schomburgk, the second and most renowned Director of the Botanic Garden. While it no longer houses tropical plants as originally intended, its restoration in the 1990s has meant that the Palm House is still a prominent part of the Botanic Garden experience.  It remains as the only known extant German-built glasshouse of the period anywhere in the world. 

The scene of pomp and ceremony, debates and demonstrations

The River Torrens has dominated the development of Adelaide and its metropolis, often in subtle or little recognised ways

Mansions at one end and cottages at the other, with businesses, welfare, medical and educational institutions in between, all overlooking the parklands

Built in 1881, this heritage-listed building on Victoria Square has long captured the public's imagination with tales of secret tunnels.

A temporary camping ground for the early European settlers, the West Parklands developed to host most notably a cemetery and a school.

A major cemetery, a palace and an observatory have graced West Terrace along with its parklands border