Overview
About Medina Grand Adelaide Treasury
Heritage listed colonial treasury building with tunnels and courtyard garden
If you want to sleep in a place with a story in South Australia, you can’t go past the Medina Grand Adelaide Treasury. It fairly reeks of colonial history. The 169-year-old Treasury building is now a 5-star apartment hotel following a $20 million restoration.
Soon after opening, the Treasury was named in Conde Nast Traveler’s list of the top 80 best new hotels in the world.
The Treasury’s three-storey central section boasts Florentine Palazzi architecture, overlooking a courtyard where South Australian settlers once slept while queuing for land grants and mining permits. Australia’s first gold coin, the Adelaide pound, was minted there during the 1850s Gold Rush.
The Premier’s Cabinet met in its Cabinet Room from 1876 to 1968. Featuring a huge yellowing map of the state covering one wall, heavy timber table, shiny leather chairs and book cabinets with rows of hand-bound volumes of Parliamentary Minutes, the room was preserved as a conference and business meeting room. The Treasury’s underground tunnels, used by Lands Department cartographers and surveyors who at one time led the world in the art of map-making, were also restored.
Map & Activities
Located in the heart of the CBD, adjacent to the Adelaide Town Hall and
opposite The General Post Office, the stately Victorian-era building,
which overlooks Victoria Square, is a five-minute walk from the city’s
main shopping strip, Rundle Mall, and only two minutes’ walk from
Adelaide's Central Market, recognised as the best produce market of its
type in the southern hemisphere.
- Bike Riding along Lineqr Park
- Paddle Boat Hire on Torrans River
- Hiking in National Parks
- Tram to Glenelg Beach
- Tours to Adelaide Hills
- Swimming with Dolphins in port Adelaide
- Adelaide Central Markets
On January 21, 1863, the people of Adelaide flocked to the square in
front of the Treasury to welcome explorer John McDouall Stuart. The
short, hairy skeleton of a man in tattered clothing rode in front of his
ragged party of nine companions and skinny pack horses, back from a
15-month epic journey, successfully crossing the Australian continent
south-to-north, from Adelaide to the Gulf of Carpentaria. On that same
day, Melbourne was in mourning as the bones of Stuart’s rivals,
explorers Burke and Wills, who reached the gulf but died on the return
journey, were being buried in Victoria’s first state funeral.
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Opposite the hotel you can catch a tram south to the seaside resort of
Glenelg, or north to the casino and tree-lined North Terrace, on which
fronts the South Australian Museum, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens.
Nearest Airport:
Adelaide Airport
Airport Distance:
20 minutes - 10 kilometers
Medina Grand Adelaide Treasury,
2, Flinders Street,
Adelaide,
South Australia,
5000,
Australia.
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