Napier is a medium sized city on the east coast of the North Island.
As a result of a big earthquake in 1931 a lot of the city was destroyed and 256 people were killed.
It was then rebuilt in an art deco style – the biggest concentration of that style of art deco in New Zealand, if not anywhere.
This is Pania of the Reef a statue on Marine Parade. She was an ocean maiden who fell in love with and married Karitoki (the handsome son of a Maori chief). He tried to trick her into staying on land but she escaped back to the sea. He never saw her again.
Napier serves a large and successful wine growing region – the Hawke's Bay. Hawke's Bay wineries include Church Road, Craggy Range, Black Barn, Elephant Hill and Te Mata Estate. Buy a wine from one of these and you will be very pleased.
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