Ballarat Self-Guided Tours
Explore Ballarat in your own time and at your own pace on a self-guided tour. The history of this great city will blow you away.
Ballarat Revealed
Ballarat Revealed is a geolocation-based historical storytelling site allowing the user to go on a guided walking tour of the streets of Ballarat's CBD using a smart phone device.
Experience the cityscape as it was in past centuries through historical images and videos sourced from archives and online.
This tour will take you from the Bridge Mall up a path in the middle of Ballarat's "grand boulevard", Sturt Street, and along the footpaths of Lydiard and Doveton streets.
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Ballarat's Historic Streetscapes Walking Tour
Discover the grand architectural links to Ballarat's dramatic past with this self-guided streetscapes walking tour.
Unearth the fortunes lavished upon the buildings in Lydiard Street, enjoy the melding of architecture in Camp Street and soak in the history of Sturt Street.
Brochure & Map
Ballarat's Historic Statues Walking Tour
Experience Sturt Street as an open-air gallery of priceless sculptures and monuments honouring heroes and icons, observe the wealth of stories set in stone and, as you wander the main street of Ballarat, consider that it once bustled with the rumble of trams for over 80 years.
Brochure & Map
The Australian Ex-prisoners of War Memorial
Located at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens, this memorial recognises and remembers those Australians who became Prisoners of War during the wars of the 20th century.
Opened in 2004, it acknowledges the hardship, deprivation, brutality, starvation and disease endured by Prisoners of War during their capture and the scars many continued to endure upon their repatriation to Australia.
More than 36,000 Australian ex-POWs are represented on the 130-metre long granite wall, including the 8600 who died in captivity and remain buried on foreign shores.
Australian Ex-prisoners of War Memorial
The Garden of the Grieving Mother
The Garden of the Grieving Mother is designed to be a space for contemplation and reflection, honouring and acknowledging the grief and anxiety experienced by those "at home"; the mothers, fathers, families and friends left behind, waiting for news of loved ones serving in foreign lands in times of war.
Located at the Arch of Victory in Sturt Street, the garden's inspiration came from World War I but it is intended as a tribute to the mothers and families of all Australian servicemen and women in all wars.
The bronze, life-size statue at the heart of the garden is the work of prominent Australian sculptor Peter Corlett OAM.
Location
43 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat 3350 Map
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Web Links
→ www.visitballarat.com.au/things-to-do/recreation-outdoor-activities/self-guided-tours/
→ Ballarats Historic Streetscapes Walking Tour Brochure and Map (PDF)
→ Ballarats Historic Statues Walking Tour (PDF)
→ The Australian Ex-prisoners of War Memorial
