Flagstaff Gardens

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    btwn La Trobe, William, Dudley & King Sts, city centre
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These bustling gardens are popular with workers taking a lunchtime break to soak up some vitamin D. The park has a children's playground, barbecues and a lawn-bowling green.

First known as Burial Hill, this is where most of the city's early settlers ended up. The hill provided one of the best views of the bay, so a signalling station was set up here; when a ship was sighted arriving from Britain, a flag was raised on the flagstaff to notify the settlers. Later a cannon was fired when the more important ships arrived, replacing the flag-raising, but the name remained.