Victoria Square Adelaide

1895 Adelaide, Australia

Victoria Square in Adelaide, photographed in 1895. Laid out as the central square in Colonel William Light's original plan for the city, it has functioned as a civic hub since Adelaide's founding in the 1830s.

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