Ballarat Attractions 
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Ballarat (pop. 64,000) is famed as the scene of the Eureka rising, the only 'civil war' in Australia's history, when gold miners refused to pay government license fees and barricaded themselves into the Eureka Stockade. The rebellion was repressed by the army on December 3rd 1854, leaving 27 dead and many wounded. The rich finds of gold increased the population of the town to 40,000. Over 20 million ounces of gold were recovered during the gold boom, which lasted 20 years.
Ballarat's principal tourist attraction is Sovereign Hill. Here, on a 26ha site, is a reconstruction of a gold-mining town centered on a real gold mine, with a gold museum, shops, a hotel, a theater, a Chinese temple and figures in contemporary costume re-creating the life of the town in the 1860s.
In Ballarat's main street (Sturt Street) are numbers of handsome and substantial houses dating from the 1880s. The mixture of architectural styles - neo-Romanesque, neo-Gothic, neo-Renaissance - is characteristic of the Australian gold-mining towns.
Ballarat's principal tourist attraction is Sovereign Hill. Here, on a 26ha site, is a reconstruction of a gold-mining town centered on a real gold mine, with a gold museum, shops, a hotel, a theater, a Chinese temple and figures in contemporary costume re-creating the life of the town in the 1860s.
In Ballarat's main street (Sturt Street) are numbers of handsome and substantial houses dating from the 1880s. The mixture of architectural styles - neo-Romanesque, neo-Gothic, neo-Renaissance - is characteristic of the Australian gold-mining towns.
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