Introducing ALbury Woodonga

TWICE THE PLACE. TWICE THE TIME

Albury and Wodonga sit either side of where the nation’s busiest highway crosses our greatest river.

As a meeting point of contrasts and cultures its significance stretches all the way back to the first Aboriginal inhabitants who gathered here long before the arrival of Europeans.

Being on the natural border between the two oldest and strongest colonies, Albury and Wodonga grew up as both river port and rail head. They were the start and end of much of the trade, travel and commerce between the two colonial powers. 

As a consequence of its strategic position, both geographically and politically, this bend in the mighty Murray has been playing host to native hunters, pioneering families, itinerant travellers, entrepreneurial businessmen, lost foreigners, gold diggers, bushrangers, refugees, prime ministers, Melbourne Cup winners and every sort of passersby for centuries.

The contrasts and contradictions of time and place, history and progress, river and mountain, culture and cultivation have melded themselves into an unlikely harmony of differences not experienced anywhere else in the country.

Here you’ll find the unique blend of cosmopolitan city lifestyle and old-fashioned country hospitality. The modern city and the historical village sit comfortably together in a beautiful landscape of rich river plains and rugged snow-capped mountains. The past and the present are both here, alive and available. Art and adventure, gourmet cuisine and cottage gardens, solitude and shopping, vintage wines and modern sculpture, European sophistication and pioneer practicality are everywhere.

This duality of sense and style is a vivid and constant feature of our character.  We are twin cities astride two states of mind and nation, who are always shining new light through old windows, and happily shaking hands with strangers.

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