Subiaco
Leafy suburb built atop a failed nineteenth-century monastery, now lined with cafes and boutiques.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Subiaco, a suburb of Perth, traces the suburb's name back to a nineteenth-century Benedictine mission that two Spanish monks, Rosendo Salvado and Joseph Benedict Serra, built on swampy ground near Herdsman Lake starting in eighteen forty-six. It follows their years of digging channels, planting groves and raising stone stables, and Serra's rise to Bishop of Perth, as the venture slowly came apart. One heritage-listed stable the monks raised by hand still stands a short walk from where you're listening.
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