Cultural Heritage

Culture which is authentic, as real as the people

Australia’s Gold Coast embraces culture spanning thousands of years. Indigenous peoples feasted, lived and celebrated in the area now defined as Australia’s Gold Coast.

Walk in the footsteps of thousands of years of unbroken history at Burleigh National Park, Lamington and Springbrook national parks and Natural Bridge, places of Dreaming. To the south, Wollumbin (Mount Warning) remains a sacred place of significance. Tweed Heads Historic Site is significant with its bora rings.

• Representative indigenous organisations. www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au or www.datsip.qld.gov.au
• The arrival of cattle graziers, timber getters, dairy farmers and agricultural farmers heralded the new era. Drive through Beaudesert Shire’s historic landmarks. www.bsc.qld.gov.au
• Attend an event which celebrates the pioneering past – the Rathdowney Heritage Festival. www.rathdowney.org.au
• The Beenleigh Cane Festival and Tweed’s Banana Festival. www.tweed.nsw.gov.au 
• Stay in authentic timber getters’ cabins or sip wine in an elegant Queensland homestead verandah at a winery.

Some attractions are intrinsically Gold Coast – the Meter Maid Museum, the Gold Coast Sporting Hall of Fame, Tweed River Marine and Heritage Museum and the Yugambeh Museum. www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au

Trace Gold Coast’s high-rise history with Living High, an Architectural Guide to Tall Buildings, Gold Coast’s beach culture is captured in Castles in the Sand. www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au