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Brisbane City Hall
Brisbane City Hall took a full decade to build, opening on April 8, 1930, as one of Australia's most expensive construction projects of its era, second only to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The result was worth every penny …
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The Old Windmill
Built in 1828 by convict labor, the Old Windmill is Queensland's oldest surviving building and one of Australia's most fascinating monuments to failure turned innovation. Despite being placed on a prime hilltop with exce…
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Queensland Parliament
Queensland Parliament House has one of the most dramatic construction stories of any government building in Australia. When the colony was established in 1859, work began with confidence on a grand new legislature. Then …
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Queens Gardens
Queens Gardens is a small public square on George Street in the heart of Brisbane, close to the Brisbane River. It is best known for its bronze statue of Queen Victoria, the only one of her in the city, and for the colon…
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Brisbane RAAF Memorial
The Brisbane RAAF Memorial stands on Elizabeth Street in the centre of Brisbane, honouring the Royal Australian Air Force in the middle of the city's historic core. It sits beside Queens Gardens, a small park where colon…
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Post Office Square (Park)
Post Office Square is a small public park on Queen Street in the heart of Brisbane's CBD, set among office towers and beside the city's historic General Post Office. It is a handy place to pause in the busiest part of to…
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Queen Street Mall
Queen Street Mall is Brisbane's pedestrianised main street, several blocks of shopping with street performers working the middle. It is the simplest orientation point in the city centre.
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City Botanic Gardens
The City Botanic Gardens is a riverside public park in the centre of Brisbane, Queensland, set on a bend of the Brisbane River at Gardens Point. It is the city's oldest botanic garden, and its old fig trees and bunya pin…
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Queen Victoria Monument
The Queen Victoria Monument is a bronze statue of the monarch in Queens Gardens, in the heart of Brisbane's CBD. Unveiled in 1906, it is the only statue of Queen Victoria in the city, and it stands on ground that was onc…
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MacArthur Museum Brisbane
The MacArthur Museum Brisbane is a small museum in MacArthur Chambers, at the corner of Queen and Edward streets in the heart of Brisbane. It stands in the building that General Douglas MacArthur used as the headquarters…
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King George Square
King George Square is the main civic square of Brisbane, Australia, set directly in front of Brisbane City Hall in the heart of the CBD. It is named after King George V and works as the city's open-air meeting place, wit…
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MacArthur Museum
The MacArthur Museum is on the eighth floor of MacArthur Chambers, at the corner of Queen and Edward Streets in Brisbane. During the Second World War the building was the Allied headquarters for the South-West Pacific, a…
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Thomas Joseph Ryan monument
The Thomas Joseph Ryan monument stands in the Queens Gardens area of Brisbane City, close to Elizabeth Street. It honours Thomas Joseph Ryan, who served as Premier of Queensland from 1915 to 1919 and later moved into fed…
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The Elizabeth Picture Theatre
The Elizabeth Picture Theatre is a stop at 175 Elizabeth St in the heart of Brisbane's city centre, in the compact grid of streets that makes the CBD easy to explore on foot. It is best seen as part of a wander through t…
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Murder Mystery: Death in the Shadows in CBD, Brisbane
90 min · EN · DE · ES · FR · RO · IT
Places on this quest: Post Office Square (Park) · Brisbane RAAF Memorial
The Oz Escape: A Wicked Glitch in Brisbane
90 min · EN
Places on this quest: Thomas Joseph Ryan monument · MacArthur Museum
Lucky Treasure Hunt: The Golden Shamrock in Brisbane
90 min · EN
Places on this quest: Post Office Square (Park) · Brisbane RAAF Memorial
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