Explore Adelaide

Adelaide Central Market, between Grote and Gouger Streets in the city centre, has traded since 1869 and is one of the oldest markets in Australia. More than 70 traders under one roof sell fruit and vegetables, meat, seafood, cheese, bread and other produce, alongside cafés and food stalls.

The South Australian Museum is a natural history museum and research institution on North Terrace, founded in 1856. Its galleries show an extensive collection of Australian Aboriginal cultural material, a polar collection from early Antarctic expeditions, minerals, fossils and animal specimens, in a complex of 19th-century and modern buildings.

The Art Gallery of South Australia on North Terrace was founded in 1881 as the National Gallery of South Australia; its Classical Revival Elder Wing opened in 1900. The collection of almost 45,000 works is strongest in Australian art, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, and also covers European, Asian and North American art.

Adelaide Botanic Garden covers 51 hectares at the north-east corner of the city centre, in the Park Lands off North Terrace, and opened to the public in 1857. Its glasshouses include the Victorian Palm House, the Amazon Waterlily Pavilion and the Bicentennial Conservatory, alongside a rose garden and the Museum of Economic Botany.

St Peter's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of Adelaide, at the corner of King William Road and Pennington Terrace in North Adelaide. Designed by William Butterfield and completed by Edward John Woods, it was first consecrated in 1878 and finished in 1904, with twin spires and a rose window over the south entrance showing scenes of South Australia and the Bible.

Glenelg Beach is a long sandy beach on Holdfast Bay, in the seaside suburb of Glenelg south-west of Adelaide's centre, Kaurna Country known as Pattawilya. Founded in 1836, Glenelg was the first European settlement on mainland South Australia. Behind the beach are the jetty, Moseley Square and Jetty Road, served by the tram from the city.