Stairway to heaven - 99 Steps and you are in West Hobart How can you not love a place that has stairs and secret walkways, tiny cottages full of history and streets named after poets and artists? New vistas unfold in every direction the higher you climb. Look down and you can see the whole city before you. Look north and it's the superb churches and tiny cottages of North Hobart. To the west, a craggy Mt. Wellington looms and to the east, there is the breadth of the Derwent. The not quite finished sculpture by John Cole in the Peace Park not far from the top of the stairs The Friends Park in Mellifont Street used to belong to the Quaker's and is one of Hobart's oldest Cemeteries, unused after 1912. Headstones from pioneer graves line the old sandstone walls, although all human remains were removed in 1936. This stunning and very large Roland Gabatel Sculpture is also in the Friends Park Train Park in Hill Street - This fully enclosed park has safety gates so that chil...
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