Brisbane

:This article is about the city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. For other uses see Brisbane (disambiguation)

Tourism

Streets of Brisbane

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Within the Brisbane CBD, the central streets are named for members of the House of Hanover.

Related Topics:
Brisbane - CBD - House of Hanover

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Streets named after female members

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• (Adelaide, Alice, Ann, Charlotte, Elizabeth, Margaret and Mary)

run parallel to Queen Street, and perpendicular to streets named after male members

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• (Albert, Edward, George, and William).

For streets within the city of Brisbane, see Brisbane City streets

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Popular tourist destinations within, or close to, Brisbane CBD

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Popular areas for tourists in the city include the recently developed Roma Street Parkland, and the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens (a colonial era botanic gardens founded in 1855 in the Brisbane CBD).

Related Topics:
Roma Street Parkland - Brisbane City Botanic Gardens

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Also popular with tourists are the South Bank Parklands, which are located on the site of World Expo '88. The South Bank Parklands are famous for firework displays that attract thousands of spectators. Tourists and locals alike frequent the beautiful bougainvillea lined Riverside Walkway at all times of the year and flock to the area during music and arts festivals.

Related Topics:
South Bank Parklands - World Expo '88

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Brisbane is also home to rockclimbing cliffs at Kangaroo Point, an extensive riverside bikeway.

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Other popular tourist destinations within the Brisbane area

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Popular with tourists is the Mount Coot-tha state forest, which includes a lookout over the city, as well as Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens (which are contemporary botanical gardens), and the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium.

Related Topics:
Mount Coot-tha - Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens - Botanical gardens - Sir Thomas Brisbane - Planetarium

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Also popular is Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, which was founded in 1927 and which is the oldest and largest Koala sanctuary in the world.

Related Topics:
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary - Koala - Sanctuary

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Brisbane has many beautiful parks and gardens. For a listing of Brisbane's parks and gardens, see Brisbane parks and gardens.

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Annual Events

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• Ekka (the Royal Queensland Show) is held in August
• Brisbane's Riverfestival is held in September, and includes "Riverfire", a fireworks which is nationally famous, and which often includes a "dump and burn" by an F-111 Jet Fighter Aircraft.

Brisbane shopping and entertainment

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Major shopping precincts also exist throughout the CBD, in the Queen Street Mall and in Fortitude Valley.

Related Topics:
Queen Street Mall - Fortitude Valley

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Brisbane's CBD, centred around the Queen Street pedestrian mall, also offers a range of restaurants, award winning shopping centres, night clubs, music and souvenirs. Other popular restaurant districts across the city and suburbs include Fortitude Valley, New Farm, Teneriffe, West End, Bulimba, Milton, Rosalie, Paddington and Sunnybank.

Related Topics:
CBD - Restaurant - Fortitude Valley - New Farm - Teneriffe - West End - Bulimba - Milton - Rosalie - Paddington - Sunnybank

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Fortitude Valley, known popularly as 'the Valley' was zoned as an entertainment precinct in 2004. The Valley is home to pubs, bars, nightclubs, restaurants and cafés and to Brisbane's Chinatown precinct. The Brunswick Street mall hosts bustling pedestrian markets on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

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