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Ballarat

Ballarat is a city about 110 km (68 mi) north-west of Melbourne in the Goldfields region of Victoria. Ballarat is most noted as a former goldmining town with excellent examples of Australian colonial architecture, and as the site of the famous miners' revolt at the Eureka Stockade in 1854. Wikivoyage

Population 116,201 (Wikidata)

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Before you go

Emergency numbers in Australia

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Australia

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Ballarat Antique Fair

    March

    Annual fair every March Labour Day weekend. Australia's longest running, and largest antiques and collectibles fair

    Official site

  2. Begonia Festival

    March

    Ballarat Begonia Festival is a carnival and community cultural festival held annually in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Run since 1953, it is a major tourist attraction of the city.

    Official site Wikipedia

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Ballarat); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: Wendouree 2.9 km, Invermay Miniature Railway 3.7 km

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