Autumn sunshine bath the walls of the former warehouses as shoppers browse at the Salamanca Arts Centre on the historic Salamanca Place with a row of
Autumn morning sunshine bath the walls of the former warehouses as shoppers browse at the Salamanca Arts Centre on the historic Salamanca Place with a row of sandstone former warehouses for the port of Hobart Town in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The warehouses were used during the whaling days of the 1830s, and goods winched from the upper levels of the warehouses directly onto ships. The three four-storey warehouses are of Australian colonial architecture and were built using free convict labour. The stones were quarried and hand-cut by hundreds of convicts from cliffs behind Salamanca Place. Salamanca is named for the area in Spain where a famous battle was waged between the English and the French in 1812 Today, the buildings have since been converted into restaurants, galleries (including the Salamanca Arts Centre), craft shops and offices.
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Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Photo credit: © richard sowersby / Alamy / Afripics
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