‘The Garden City’

Australia’s largest inland city of approximately 90,000 residents located only 90 minutes drive from Brisbane and capital of the famous Darling Downs agricultural region covering over 4 million acres of rich grazing lands on the western side of the great dividing range.

White men first entered the area in 1816, an English botanist Mr Allan Cunningham explored the area and named the region “The Darling Downs” after the then Governor of NSW Sir Ralph Darling. The location of the city was originally a swamp and it is believed that the name came from the aboriginal word for water reeds “Woomba Woomba” other theories exist but nobody knows for sure. The town was given this name by a Mr Thomas Alford whose wife was the first to give birth to a European baby in the location.
 

Toowoomba today has over 1,044 hectares of parkland including the beautiful Botanic Gardens which are a major highlight of the Carnival of Flowers held each September. With over 150 parks and gardens this city is one for the plant lover with the best time to visit in the spring.

Like any major centre there is more to see than the flowers. Well preserved colonial buildings, museums, wineries, theatres and much much more.

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