Explore the classic city centre

Join members of Brisbane City Council’s City Architecture and Heritage Team on a guided tour around Brisbane’s City Centre heritage trail. The one and half hour walking tour highlights an exciting range of sites and events that have shaped Brisbane’s history.

The trail takes you on a journey through the city’s early convict history, the ‘Great Fire of Brisbane’ in the 1860s, its commercial prosperity in the 1880s boom time, the intense military presence during World War II and in to the 1970s.

The Classic City Centre Heritage Trail begins in Queens Street, passes City Hall to Ann Street and up Jacob’s Ladder to Wickham Terrace. It then goes to ANZAC Square, the GPO, St Stephen’s Cathedral and back to Queen Street past MacArthur’s Headquarters on Edward Street.