Levuka Historical Port Town
Levuka
Fiji’s first capital and a World Heritage colonial port town, where timber shopfronts on the seafront street preserve the look of the 19th century.
Levuka was Fiji’s first colonial capital from 1874 to 1882 and was inscribed on the World Heritage list as the Historic Port Town of Levuka in 2013. Along the coast, Beach Street is lined with covered-veranda timber shopfronts, old trading houses and a war memorial. Behind them, on steep green hillsides, churches, schools and colonial-era residences are scattered. The community center, the former Morris Hedstrom trading house, holds a small museum that tells the story of whalers, merchants and colonial history. The town can be walked in 1–2 hours, and you can hire a local guide for a historical walking tour.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- Royal Hotel
- Masonic Lodge Ruins
- Sacred Heart Church
- Levuka Methodist Church
- 199 Steps (Mission Hill)
- Cession Site, Nasova
- Gun Rock
- Lovoni Village