Neighbourhoods

Heritage shopfronts with upstairs offices, warehouses overlooking narrow streets, churches and Victorian sporting pavilions are a reminder of the city’s strategic importance during the 19th century gold rush. 

An award winning entertainment precinct and home to a commercial and recreational fishing industry on the edge of the Indian Ocean. Bathers Beach, Fremantle’s inner-city beach is the first place in Western Australia where you can sit and have a glass of wine or beer right on the beach.

An idyllic island experience just 25 minutes from Fremantle, with stunning white beaches, brilliant blue waters and swimming holes, abundant marine life and the world's happiest animal - the quokka.

The heart of Fremantle in the square originally imagined in 1833 by John Septimus Roe and where the wide blue Western Australian skies meet the architecture of a spirited 19th century gold rush port city, where avenues of Jacaranda trees line the streets and Moreton Bay figs and plane trees create a canopy for an urban room in the heart of the downtown area.

One of the best preserved and most intact towns built during the 19th century gold boom era in Australia. Stunning streetscapes are lined with restaurants, cafes and artisan boutiques. Home to the Fremantle campus of the University of Notre Dame Australia.