Full Day Tour of the Victorian Goldfields

Wednesday 19 November - 9am to 4.30pm


Delegates are welcome to register for day three of Australia ICOMOS 2025 where we will be conducting a full day tour of the World Heritage Tentative Listed Victorian Goldfields.

Departing from the Ballarat Historic Urban Landscape - one of the world’s most notable gold rush cities, you will join Dja Dja Wurrung Traditional Owners and the World Heritage bid team to travel through several proposed World Heritage component sites on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Explore the Creswick and the Deep Lead Landscape - an unparalleled example of this rare type of gold mining, Lalgambuk (Mt Franklin) - an area that evidences Aboriginal connection to Country before, during and after the gold rushes, and Castlemaine Goldfields and Historic Townships, with pre-eminent alluvial diggings of an early major gold rush in Victoria.

Coach transportation will be provided for delegates attending the full day tour, with pick up and drop off from Ballarat CBD. A lunch box will be provided.

Please wear comfortable clothes and footwear.

The fee for this tour includes return transfers from Ballarat and lunch.

Delegates are welcome to indicate their attendance for the tour when registering.




Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park. Image Barry Gamble

Australia ICOMOS and the City of Ballarat are proud to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land which includes Ballarat today, the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung People, and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waterways.

We pay our respects to all Elders, past and present, and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.