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The Auckland Domain in Auckland is the oldest park in the city covering an extensive area and being home to rich varieties. Sprawling across 75 hectares, the park was laid around an extinct volcano. The 'tuff rings' made by volcanic activity long ago can be seen in the landscape and is in the form of a natural amphitheatre with 10 hectares of area devoted to first-class sports. Features of Auckland Domain in Auckland: - The park is exhibits a classical elegance of formal gardens, verdant greens fringed by soaring trees and a striking statuary.
- The garden has three bronze sculptures. The central, male figure is a symbol of Auckland and the two female figurines represent wisdom and 'fertility of the soil'.
- Duck ponds make for natural springs in the gardens and old trees are found in several picnic spots.
- The trimmed grounds play host to the city's earliest cricketing events during summer.
- Winter brings in rugby, league, and soccer with renewed vigor.
- Many of the old trees were saplings of the nursery set up in the Domain in 1841 to grow and distribute European plants and around the city. The nursery in recent times provides exotic plants for exhibitions in the winter garden and the city parks.
- The winter garden and the imposing Auckland War Memorial Museum located at the highest point of the domain are some of the major highlights of the Auckland Domain in Auckland. The winter garden was created after the First World War and is a protected heritage site.
- The winter garden complex constitutes of two display glasshouses, a formal courtyard with a pond in the center, a fernery within an old quarry. The complex can be visited through out the year. Outdoor concerts and many other private events take place but outside public hours. The cool house at the winter garden is embellished with exotic flowers. Repair and refurbishment of the damaged parts of the complex is to be undertaken under the refurbishment project.
How to reach Auckland Domain in Auckland:
You can enter the park from Park Road, Grafton by Auckland Hospital on foot from Grafton Bridge from upper Symonds Street, Cars and other vehicles can enter from Stanley Street, George Street and Titoki Street. The Link Bus service halts at the Domain
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