Sights in Hastings & Around
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Hawke’s Bay Opera House
Although you wouldn’t guess from the sturdy Spanish-Mission exterior, its lavish art-nouveau heart betrays it as an earthquake survivor. Built in 1910, it’s recently had a multimillion-dollar refit and a modern plaza and foyer added. Tours take place during Art Deco Weekend.
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Westerman's Building
The Westerman's Building is arguably the Bay's best example of the Spanish Mission style.
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Hastings City Art Gallery
The city's gallery presents contemporary NZ and international art in a pleasant, purpose-built space.
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Te Mata Trust Park
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Te Mata Peak
Rising melodramatically from the Heretaunga Plains, Te Mata Peak, 16km south of Havelock North, is part of the 98-hectare Te Mata Trust Park. The road to the 399m summit passes sheep trails, rickety fences and vertigo-inducing stone escarpments cowled in a bleak, lunar-meets-Scottish-Highland atmosphere. The lookout still awaits its makeover, but it’s really all about the views which – on a clear day – fall away to Hawke Bay, Mahia Peninsula and distant Mt Ruapehu.
The view of Te Mata is also extraordinary. To local Maori this is the sleeping giant Te Mata O Rongokako. From the fields around Havelock North, a little imagination will conjure up the giant, lying on his…
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