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Places to visit in Perth

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The Big Cactus

The Big Cactus is a recognisable stop on Forrest Place in central Perth, Western Australia, set among the shops and streets of the city centre. It is an easy place to include on a walk through Perth, and a good reason to…

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The Bell Tower

The Bell Tower, also known as the Swan Bells, is a tall glass and copper spire on Barrack Square in Perth, Western Australia, right on the edge of the Swan River. It houses 18 bells, including 12 that came from a famous …

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Mondo Butchers

Mondo Butchers is a local butcher shop at 824 Beaufort Street in Inglewood, Perth. It is remembered as a Beaufort Street institution that has traded since 1979, and it makes a good stop for anyone exploring this busy str…

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The Lincoln Street Ventilation Stack

The Lincoln Street Ventilation Stack is a tall, slender sewer vent in the Perth suburb of Highgate, Western Australia. Built in 1935 to release gases from the city's sewer network, it is now a heritage-listed landmark an…

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Elizabeth Quay Bridge

Elizabeth Quay Bridge is a pedestrian bridge across the inlet at Elizabeth Quay, the waterfront development on the edge of Perth's city centre beside the Swan River. It is a modern landmark of the redeveloped riverfront,…

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Fremantle Prison

Fremantle Prison is a World Heritage-listed convict site on The Terrace in Fremantle, part of greater Perth, Western Australia. Convicts built it in the 1850s, and it stayed in use as a prison until 1991. That makes it o…

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Round House

The Round House is the oldest surviving public building in Western Australia, a twelve-sided limestone gaol on Arthur Head in Fremantle, in the Perth area. Built in 1830 and 1831, it was the first gaol of the young Swan …

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Fremantle Markets

Fremantle Markets is a Victorian-era covered market on the corner of South Terrace and Henderson Street in Fremantle, the port city at the mouth of the Swan River in the Perth metropolitan area. It opened in 1897 and is …

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Western Australian Shipwrecks Museum

The Western Australian Shipwrecks Museum is a maritime museum in Fremantle, the port city of Perth, housed in a limestone store built by convicts in the 1850s. It is best known for holding original timbers from the Batav…

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Ocean Beach Hotel

The Ocean Beach Hotel is a large seaside pub on Marine Parade in Cottesloe, a beachside suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It faces Cottesloe Beach and the Indian Ocean, and it is one of the best-known places for a drin…

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Dingo Flour Mill

The Dingo Flour Mill is a landmark industrial building on Stirling Highway in North Fremantle, in the Perth region of Western Australia. It is best known for the large red silhouette of a dingo painted on its side, which…

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