Places to explore in Napier
Build real days in Napier from a broader mix of sights, museums, architecture, parks, markets, neighbourhoods, and food stops from the existing Sortie inventory.
Start with the headline places
1897 Flood Heroism Memorial
The 1897 Flood Heroism Memorial is a commemorative landmark in Napier associated by name with acts of heroism during the 1897 flood. Established in 1900, it offers visitors a tangible point of connection with the city’s history of remembrance.
A Wave in Time
A Wave in Time is a sculpture in Napier dating from February 2010. Visitors encounter it as a work of public art whose title and wave motif connect a contemporary sculptural presence with the character of its coastal city setting.
Clive Square
Clive Square is a civic square in Napier whose establishment dates to 1854. Its long history makes it a durable element of the city’s urban landscape, where visitors can encounter public space with roots in Napier’s nineteenth-century development.
Customhouse, Napier
Customhouse, Napier is a historic building in the city. For visitors interested in the built heritage of Napier, it provides a surviving architectural point of reference connected through its name to the civic function of a customhouse.
Daily Telegraph Building
The Daily Telegraph Building is a former newspaper building in Napier, completed in 1933. Visitors encounter a historic place associated with the city’s press history and with the architecture of Napier’s early-1930s built environment.
Faraday Museum of Technology
The Faraday Museum of Technology is a technology museum in Napier founded in 1979. It offers visitors a museum setting centered on technology, adding a science-and-industry perspective to the city’s cultural attractions.
Museums and cultural stops
Architecture and landmarks
Heipipi
Heipipi is a pā in Napier, representing a Māori fortified settlement site. Visitors encounter a place of cultural and historical significance that reflects the Māori presence in the landscape beyond the city’s later-built landmarks.
Heritage Fountain (Nga Puna Wai Whakapapa)
Heritage Fountain (Nga Puna Wai Whakapapa) is a sculptural fountain in Napier created in 1996. Combining sculpture with a water feature, it gives visitors a work of public art whose bilingual name contributes to its cultural character.
HMNZS Tui anchor
The HMNZS Tui anchor is a publicly displayed maritime object along Marine Parade in Napier. Visitors can view an actual anchor associated by name with HMNZS Tui, adding a naval and maritime point of interest to the city’s public landscape.
Millennial Arch
The Millennial Arch is a sculptural arch in Napier dating from 2000. Its form combines the qualities of public sculpture and an architectural gateway, giving visitors a landmark explicitly associated with the turn of the millennium.
Mission Estate Winery
Mission Estate Winery is a winery in the Hawke’s Bay region near Napier. It gives visitors a direct connection with the region’s wine-producing identity and represents the viticultural side of the wider Napier travel experience.
MTG Hawke's Bay
MTG Hawke’s Bay is a combined museum, theatre, and art gallery in Napier, with an institutional history dating to 1865. Visitors encounter several cultural functions in one place, spanning museum interpretation, visual art, and performance.
Parks and outdoor places
Anderson Park
Anderson Park is a public green space in Napier. It gives visitors an alternative to the city’s buildings and monuments, providing a park environment suited to experiencing Napier’s open-air, recreational side.
National Aquarium of New Zealand
The National Aquarium of New Zealand is an aquarium in Napier founded in 1957. It provides visitors with a dedicated setting for encountering aquatic life and represents one of the city’s longest-established purpose-specific visitor attractions.
Spriggs Park
Spriggs Park is a public park in Napier and forms part of the city’s network of outdoor spaces. Visitors encounter a local green setting whose defining character is recreational and open-air, in contrast to Napier’s architectural landmarks and museums.
Sunken Garden
Sunken Garden is a garden in Napier established in 1969. Visitors encounter a deliberately defined garden space whose below-grade character is reflected in its name, adding a landscaped outdoor feature to the city’s collection of public places.
Food, markets, and local stops
More Napier places
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Anderson Park
Anderson Park is a public green space in Napier. It gives visitors an alternative to the city’s buildings and monuments, providing a park environment suited to experiencing Napier’s open-air, recreational side.
Heipipi
Heipipi is a pā in Napier, representing a Māori fortified settlement site. Visitors encounter a place of cultural and historical significance that reflects the Māori presence in the landscape beyond the city’s later-built landmarks.
Heritage Fountain (Nga Puna Wai Whakapapa)
Heritage Fountain (Nga Puna Wai Whakapapa) is a sculptural fountain in Napier created in 1996. Combining sculpture with a water feature, it gives visitors a work of public art whose bilingual name contributes to its cultural character.
HMNZS Tui anchor
The HMNZS Tui anchor is a publicly displayed maritime object along Marine Parade in Napier. Visitors can view an actual anchor associated by name with HMNZS Tui, adding a naval and maritime point of interest to the city’s public landscape.
Ivy
Ivy is a 2018 sculpture by Tony Cragg in Napier. It presents visitors with a contemporary work by a named sculptor, contributing a modern artistic element to the city’s collection of public landmarks and cultural sights.
Millennial Arch
The Millennial Arch is a sculptural arch in Napier dating from 2000. Its form combines the qualities of public sculpture and an architectural gateway, giving visitors a landmark explicitly associated with the turn of the millennium.
Mission Estate Winery
Mission Estate Winery is a winery in the Hawke’s Bay region near Napier. It gives visitors a direct connection with the region’s wine-producing identity and represents the viticultural side of the wider Napier travel experience.
MTG Hawke's Bay
MTG Hawke’s Bay is a combined museum, theatre, and art gallery in Napier, with an institutional history dating to 1865. Visitors encounter several cultural functions in one place, spanning museum interpretation, visual art, and performance.
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