Mintaro
A 19th-century slate village whose entire town is listed as a state heritage area, with stone cottages, old pubs and slate quarries well preserved.
Mintaro rose in the mid-19th century as a staging post on the copper ore transport route, and nearby quarries produced high-quality slate for billiard tables and buildings. The whole town was the first in South Australia to be listed as a state heritage area. Along the main street are slate stone houses, the Magpie and Stump Hotel dating from 1851, antique shops and a small church. A stroll takes half an hour, and you can have lunch at the pub. It is about 17 km from Clare and is often visited together with Martindale Hall and the Mintaro Maze.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- Mintaro Maze
- Martindale Hall
- Pikes Wines
- Polish Hill River Church Museum
- Taylors Wines
- Sevenhill Cellars & St Aloysius Church
- Watervale
- Kilikanoon Wines