Mangere Bridge Village is renowned as a friendly, yet “real” taste of Kiwiana, and is a great way to acclimatize to New Zealand culture. The area is steeped in history and has a rich cultural heritage stemming from Maori settlement in the early 1800’s through to a vibrant Chinese market gardening community and European settlement. Many of the local roads are named after large farming families that settled in the area in the late 1800’s. Descendents of some of these well-known families still own a number of the buildings.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:20 +0000
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