The Best Heritage Sites in the Clare Valley
Copper mines, slate villages and colonial mansions that tell the valley's story.
The Clare Valley holds one of Australia's richest concentrations of intact 19th-century history. From a copper mine that helped save a colony to slate villages frozen in time, these sites reward anyone willing to look past the cellar doors.
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BurraBurra Monster Mine
The vast open cut of the copper mine that once helped save South Australia from bankruptcy.
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MintaroMartindale Hall
An opulent 1880s Georgian mansion, famous as a location in "Picnic at Hanging Rock".
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MintaroMintaro Slate Heritage Village
An almost perfectly preserved slate-built village, barely changed in 150 years.
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BurraRedruth Gaol
South Australia's first country gaol and a stark stone ruin on the Burra trail.
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BurraBurra Miners Dugouts
The creek-bank hollows where up to 1,800 Cornish miners once lived.
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BurraMarket Square Museum
An 1880s general store left exactly as it was, shelves still stocked.
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SevenhillSt Aloysius Church
The Jesuit church and crypt at the heart of the valley's founding settlement.
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Pick up a Burra Heritage Passport to unlock many of these sites with a single key — it's the best-value introduction to the region's extraordinary past.
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