Student Group Walking Tour - Golden Mile Heritage

The Golden Mile Heritage Walk takes students on a tour of Melbourne’s famous heritage precincts, demonstrating the ongoing legacy of the gold rush upon which nineteenth-century Melbourne flourished. With a registered professional tour guide hear tales of explorers, bankers, and rogue characters of this thriving metropolis. The walk covers the areas around Collins Street, Flinders Street and Queen Street and takes you for a sneak peek inside Gothic interiors, factory spaces, and wonderfully designed Arcades.

Year Levels

This tours is offered exclusively for school groups. This tour is suitable for both primary and secondary school students, as well as teachers looking for inspiration. Please let us know what year your students are studying.

Study themes

• History of Melbourne and its evolution into Marvelous Melbourne
• Legacy of the gold rush
• Development of government and Sense of Federation
• Rags to riches, Poverty and Wealth, ( diversity of early Melbourne)
• Immigration influences
• Urban growth of the 1800s and early 1900s

Tour guide ratio to students

As accredited professional tour guides we prefer to have maximum 15 students per tour guide.

Large groups

Large groups can be managed by doing a round robin of start times with other activies in the day

Tour duration: 1hr - 90min