My favourite area of Hobart is Salamanca Place with its historic Georgian sandstone buildings, warehouses, pubs, and cafes. But most importantly, I love it because it also plays host to the famous Salamanca Market every Saturday morning.
We spent several days in Hobart and having been told by many of our readers commenting on our facebook page that we can’t miss these markets, we made sure we time our stay over a weekend.
And we’re sure glad we did. The Salamanca Markets are some of the most vibrant and exciting markets we have seen in Australia.
The setting between the historic sandstone warehouses facades and the tree lined park painted a nice picture on arrival, and the markets were buzzing.
With over 300 hundred stallholders, Salamanca Market is hugely popular with the locals, thousands attend each Saturday, and it’s a major tourist attraction for visitors.
If you’re thinking of visiting the Salamanca Market but not sure what it’s all about, here is everything you need to know…
About the Salamanca Market
The Salamanca Market began in on the 22nd of January 1972, at the same site on Salamanca Place that it still operates on today.
It’s organized by the Hobart City Council and takes place every Saturday between 8.30am and 3.00pm.
The market has over 300 stalls that occupy the entire length of Salamanca Place, which is in the heart of Hobart’s city centre in the CBD.
Not only is the market a wonderful place to check out, but the waterfront location means you can explore more of Hobart’s CBD and waterways.
On offer was fresh and local produce, locally made products, arts, gift shops, and handicrafts from all over Tasmania, interstate and overseas.
You can also meet the stall owners, who are creators, makers, artisans, designers, farmers, growers, and producers. It’s the ideal place to pick up some home grown produce or handmade crafts as souvenirs to take home.
You can also find artists selling artwork, woodwork, and jewellery.
Our Experience At Salamanca Markets
We zigzagged our way through the crowds with Savannah in her pram, an adventure in itself, and, of course, it was drizzling with rain – don’t come to Tassie without a rain jacket.
We didn’t come to Salamanca Market to buy stuff, mainly because we’re on our indefinite road trip around Oz and our car is already chock-a-block with our possessions, plus we’ve been spoilt for choice over the years in Asia where things are so much CHEAPER.
But we…
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