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Long dedicated to preservation, Launceston is a gracious city of Victorian streetscapes and Edwardian and Georgian buildings. The link between elegant past in this Tamar River city is also preserved in Victorian Park at Cataract Gorge where bands still play from the rotunda and strolling peacocks still mew, just as they did when wealthy merchants and their families strolled in the same park on Sunday afternoons more than a century ago. And why not wet your whistle at the Launceston's Batman Fawkner Inn amid the ghosts of the founders of Melbourne who met in the very same hotel to plan the founding of a town on the other side of Bass Strait.

If you feel in need of a break with the past, plan a day in the local vineyards on the premier Tasmanian wine trail through the Tamar Valley. The prominent valley vineyards include Strathlynn St Matthias, Marion's, Holm Oak and Iron Pot. Strathlynn's dining room, which looks out over the river, specialises in locally grown food, while Marion's Vineyard at Deviot tends toward Mediterranean platers.

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