Yegenaga Travel & Tours Guide

important in Western Australia can we meet in Fremantle. He is a small town at the mouth of the Swan River approximately 19 miles southwest of Perth. Freo nicknamed port city with a population of 26,000 inhabitants was first occupied by the Swan River Colonists in 1829, and declared as a city a year later with a name derived from the name Charles Fremantle, British officials at that time.

Fremantle is very interesting to visit because it has many historical remains of 120 ancient buildings are still preserved and protected as cultural heritage. The city is more attractive because of topography above the limestone hills, which by its original inhabitants (community Nyungar) Booyeembara called. The other part consists of sandy soil called Gardoo.

Many roads can be taken if we are going to the city and everything can be accessed with a convenient way. Could by train, bus or ferry. The most rapid and convenient, of course, travel by train from Perth Central Station with the distance less than 30 minutes. Railroad tracks run by Transpert it has 5 lines, and one of them tipped in Fremantle.

Route is generally referred to as the F-Line’s famous crossing Subiaco with Sunday Market Sunday market aliases. So if we travel to Fremantle conducted on Sunday, unfortunately when we pass objects around Subiaco Train Station.

The place was not only a tourist visit, but also the purpose of local residents to shop for household needs, especially fruits and vegetables. Almost all agricultural products sold is written “This fruit and vegetable garden from the gardens in Western Australia”. So, one might say that the love of the people of the local products is very high. There can also be found sellers of food, clothing, household goods, art goods, cut flowers, and the barber shop at reasonable cost to Australian bag, which is about 15 dollars Australian

If the bill filled the stomach, or just want to sip a cup of hot coffee, we can stop at the hawker centers that offer a variety of foods and beverages from all over the world under the morning sun. There is local food, India, Italy, and did not miss Chinese food.

Having satisfied the market around, we can continue the journey to Fremantle by train. The first place is to visit the Round House, a building in Arthur’s Head at the peak and end of the High Street which has very beautiful scenery as we can see the beauty of the City of Fremantle and the height of the Indian Ocean in the distance.

Building located close to the Fremantle Railway Station is the oldest permanent building in Western Australia which was built between the years 1830-1831 and a draft of Henry Willey Reveley. Architectural design is based on the Panopticon, a prison that is the type of design according to Jeremy Bentham. Initially the building was a prison colony for communities around the Swan River which has 8 cells and the prison guards lived. All the rooms are overlooking the central courtyard.

Around the year 1850, came the first group of British convicts made up of 75 people to support the establishment of a colony (society) is greater. At that time, it was clear that the Round House building no longer able to accommodate them. Therefore, the project built a new jail by the inmates and the local population and known as the Fremantle Prison. The Round House was still used as a prison until 1886, then converted as a place to police custody till the year 1900, then used as a residence police officer and his family. Fremantle City Government later took over management of The Round House since 1982, and shortly thereafter the building was opened to the public.

Fremantel Prison, also known as the Fremantle certainly greater than the Round House because it can accommodate 800 people. That in jail there are exiles from England because of their crimes, local criminals, military prisoners, foreigners, and prisoners of war.

Interestingly, in the building there is an art gallery displaying and selling paintings of prisoners and former prisoners. In addition, in some cell wall paintings found art, including paintings from the figures of money counterfeiters James Walsh, a painting hidden behind the white paint for decades. There was even a painting of the artist Nozworthy Dennis, who was also imprisoned there, and now a collection of Curtin University, Perth Central TAFE, and the Department of Justice. In the other cell wall is also stored Aboriginal paintings from several artists are not known. There was an artist named tribe Walmajjarri Timmy Pike even started his artistic activities at the prison and received a scholarship from Steve Culley and David Wroth because of the beauty of his paintings.

The prison functioned until November 1991. The inmates then transferred to Casuarina Prison, 30 miles south of Perth, with care. The former was now crowded prisons visited by the tourists, including a tour through the water tunnel under the building.

The visit is to further the Fremantle Market is the oldest market and the most attractive in Western Australia. The market is designed in the style of Rome by architect HJ Eagles and Charles Oldham. The first stone construction placed by the Western Australian Prime Minister Sir John Forrest on November 6, 1897, and then built in 1898-1902, also by the occupants of the prison.

At first it was a wholesale food market until the 1950s, then move to Perth Market in Wellington Street. Original porch removed, and the market’s main building is used as packaging and distribution center until the 1970s. The building was then left unused until then restore Fremantle City Government in 1975, and reopened on October 31, 1975. The main structure made of limestone is still used, but the order of the interior to accommodate the changing needs of today.

Clearly, the market became part of the history of Fremantle. Ornamental designs found on the wall shows how the market is prosperous city in ancient times, because the market was built during the gold rush in the surrounding area. Some of the buildings burned in 1992, but was rebuilt shopping center of fruit and vegetables by using steel and wood recycled from Leach Highway Wool Stores.

Now, the market for local people called Freo Market, a very interesting place to visit, because in it 150 los sell a variety of goods ranging from fresh food, fruit, goods made of clay, unique items, to antiques. Make sure you visit the place when coming to Fremantle, as well as looking for a unique souvenir such as kangaroo leather, sheep skin, dried flowers, opal, shell, and many others.