The Government Gardens is a public park on the shores of Lake Rotorua in downtown Rotorua. Built by the government as a tourist attraction and partly laid out as beautifully manicured gardens, the historic gardens surround a Tudor-style spa bathhouse and a gorgeous Mediterranean-style public swimming pool and are one of New Zealand’s top tourist attractions. Known initially as Paepaekumana, the Government Gardens were the site where many significant battles took place in the late 1800s and are a historically essential and legendary site to local Maori people. The Elizabethan Tudor-style bathhouses a world-class museum and an award-winning exhibition on baths and the geothermal pools that feed them.
9 Queens Drive, Rotorua 3010, New Zealand