Everything about Victoria Square Adelaide totally explained
Victoria Square is a
public square located in the
South Australian capital of
Adelaide. The square forms the centre of the city's grid of one square mile. The square was named by the
Street Naming Committee on
May 23 1837 after
Princess Victoria,
heir presumptive of the British throne. Less than a month later the
King died and Victoria became Queen. The
Kaurna know the area as
Tarndanyangga and in line with the
Adelaide City Council's recognition of Kaurna country, it's officially referred to as Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga.
A statue of Queen Victoria stands in the centre of the square. The fountain in the north of the square was designed by artist
John Dowie to represent the three rivers from which Adelaide receives most of its water—the
Torrens, the
Onkaparinga and the
Murray. During the Christmas period a Christmas tree is erected in the square. It is 24.5m in height.
Victoria Square is bordered by important public institutions, such as the
Supreme Court of South Australia, the Adelaide
Magistrate's Court, the
Federal Court of Australia, the
Treasury and the Adelaide
General Post Office. On the eastern side is the
Roman Catholic Cathedral Church of St Francis Xavier and the near complete
SA Water Headquarters. The Torrens Building, home to a number of community organisations, is now also used by the
Heinz School Australia, an international campus of
Carnegie-Mellon University. The
Adelaide Central Market is located to the west of the Square.
King William Street passes around the square making a diamond shape with the southbound carriageway passing to the east, and the northbound carriageway around the west of the square. It is bisected by a short road (technically part of the square) that connects
Wakefield Street entering from the east with
Grote Street to the west. A tram stop (formerly the
terminus) for the
Glenelg Tram is in the southern part of the square; it was shifted from the centre to the western edge of the square on
6 August 2007, as part of the extension that was made to the tram line around that time.
Image:Victoria Square fountain.jpg|Fountain in Victoria Square
Image:Adelaide VictoriaSq Fountain Night2.JPG|Fountain in Victoria Square at night
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