Hobart Historic Walking Tour: Discover Tasmania's Heritage

Explore Hobart on foot and listen to captivating tales about the formation of Tasmania’s capital city and its transformation into the lively harbor city it is today. Your local guide will mark out the heritage-protected structures and narrate tales about pioneer personas and issues that significantly shaped the initial days of Hobart.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Hobart Town Hall - The Hobart Historic Walk will provide an introduction to Hobart’s history and orientation of the city today. Identify the heritage listed buildings and hear the stories of the early characters and issues that were major influences in the early days of Hobart.
What's Included
  • Local guide
  • Small group tour
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
Location
Tasmanian Travel & Information Centre
Elizabeth Street
Tasmanian Travel & Information Centre Corner of Davey and Elizabeth Streets
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Aliceelizabeth1992
Sep 28, 2024
Highly recommended - We joined the 1.5 hour historic walking tour with Matthew as our guide. He was clear, friendly and answered all our questions. The tour was very informative and gave us a brief but thorough overview of the key points in Hobart’s history. The length of the tour was just right.
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Minibearx
Sep 22, 2024
Great way to know Hobart for first time visitor - It was not the right weather for a walk tour—strong wind, rain, and hail storm; but I’m glad I did the trip and took the longer option. My tour guide Diane was excellent. She does not only hold wonderful knowledge about local history and architecture, her passion and love about the city were apparent through her informative and engaging instructions. She also took personal interest in me after majority of the group left and showed me some places at Battery Point which I enjoyed very much. It was a great way to know Hobart through historical buildings for first time visitor. Deep appreciation to Diane and the tour company.
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Ann_s
Apr 28, 2024
Hobart’s amazing history. - Christine was very informative and the walk was very interesting, at a good pace for all ages. So many beautiful buildings in Hobart!
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U9652rejaniceb
Feb 16, 2024
An interesting walk around historic Hobart - I am so glad we did this walk, our guide was informative and had interesting anecdotes. We were shown buildings that we wouldn't have been able to see on our own.
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Annhbaltimore
Aug 12, 2023
Knowledge guide and great introduction to Hobart - Diane was outstanding. Her knowledge of the architecture and the history of the city was amazing. It was our first day in Tasmania and the education we received on the tour helped to set the scene for the rest of our visit to this beautiful island.
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Elizabethdavis185
Apr 22, 2023
Historic Hobart Walking Tour - Great walking tour of historical Hobart. Highly recommend. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable. Will be back.
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Ken_h
Jan 28, 2024
Enjoyable Hobart Historic Walking Tour - Delving into the early history of Hobart and its settlers. A lot I did not know even though I live in the Hobart region.
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Sunburyite
Jun 28, 2023
Glimpse of early Hobart history with a good storyteller. - Our guide Diane was a spritely and entertaining character who told the story of Hobart in an interesting way. The stories are an excellent introduction for first time visitors to Hobart. We did the 1 1/2 hour tour that took us from the wharf area, past the older buildings in the CBD and finished in Salamanca Place. We loved viewing the lovely sandstone facades of the buildings and would have enjoyed seeing inside some of them. Would recommend doing.
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Lisa_a
May 22, 2023
Fabulous way to see Hobart and we made lovely acquaintances. - We had a lovely tour group. So much so we went to the pub and had a drink upon completion and then went on with one of the other couples onto another venue. Our tour guide was lovely, Dave. Passionate about the subject and really personable. Two little negatives as I have a travel background is that he left without three group members who fortunately found us and I feel it needed to be a little more structured in both the information provided and the route we took. He did mention he was quite new to it so it wasn’t an issue to us but did feel it was to others.
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Toowoomba59
Apr 22, 2024
Just another tourist tour - We did learn some interesting facts but the guide want very engaging. I felt like he was just a bit bored by the whole tour.
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