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Arts, Culture & History

Explore the past and embrace the exciting present. Being the oldest city in the Pacific Northwest has major advantages.

Vancouver Island and Victoria’s rich and fascinating history is rooted in Indigenous culture stretching back thousands of years, and British and Asian traditions since the mid 1800s. These influences echo proudly through Victoria’s amazing architecture, heritage sites, museums, gardens, galleries, markets and cultural celebrations.

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First Nations, British and Asian cultural histories make modern Victoria a vibrant, diverse and fun-to-discover city. You’ll discover museums, heritage and historic buildings, statues and sites that echo eras, industries and people of the past.

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Destination Greater Victoria is honoured to be based on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples of the Songhees Nation and the Esquimalt Nation, whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.