# Roots Earth in Suva: audio stories about 40 places Canonical: https://rootsearth.com/cities/suva Published: 16 September 2026 Roots Earth has audio stories about 40 places in Suva, Fiji, in Oceania. The Suva stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Suva, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people. The 40 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026. ## The 40 places in Suva with audio stories In the order the app shows them. 1. Sacred Heart Cathedral 2. Grand Pacific Hotel 3. Fiji Museum 4. Government House 5. Thurston Gardens 6. Government Buildings 7. Albert Park 8. Suva Carnegie Library 9. Suva Municipal Market 10. Reserve Bank of Fiji 11. Suva Old Town Hall 12. Centenary Methodist Church 13. Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral 14. Victoria Parade 15. Ratu Sukuna Park 16. Suva Cenotaph War Memorial 17. Parliament of Fiji 18. Suva Point 19. Walu Bay 20. Suva Harbour 21. The Triangle 22. National Archives of Fiji 23. HFC Bank Stadium 24. Vodafone Arena 25. University of the South Pacific 26. Suva Courthouse 27. My Suva Picnic Park 28. Toorak 29. Samabula 30. Flagstaff 31. Nasese 32. Muanikau 33. Tamavua 34. Suva Flea Market 35. WG Friendship Plaza 36. Suva Grammar School 37. Marist Brothers High School 38. Colo-i-Suva Forest Reserve 39. Suva Fiji Temple 40. Lami ## Is there an audio guide for Sacred Heart Cathedral? Yes. Sacred Heart Cathedral has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. It is place 1 of the 40 Suva places in the app, at -18.1416, 178.442. Every one of the other 39 places in the list above has the same two stories. Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself. ## How to use Roots Earth in Suva Open Roots Earth and choose Suva. The city has its own map of places with all 40 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order. You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. --- **In full** All 40 places in Suva, in the app's order, with their coordinates. ## All 40 places in Suva, with coordinates Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print. ### 1. Sacred Heart Cathedral - Coordinates: -18.1416, 178.442 - In one line: Completed in 1902 from sandstone shipped near Sydney, this Roman Catholic cathedral on Pratt Street draws on the churches of Rome. It serves as the principal Catholic church in Fiji, ornamented with stained glass and a basement crypt. ### 2. Grand Pacific Hotel - Coordinates: -18.1469, 178.4225 - In one line: Opened in 1914 by the Union Steamship Company on reclaimed harbour land, this colonnaded landmark on Victoria Parade was built to feel like an ocean liner ashore. After decades of decline and closure, it reopened in 2014 as a restored five-star hotel. ### 3. Fiji Museum - Coordinates: -18.1495, 178.4258 - In one line: Founded in 1904 and housed in a purpose-built hall in Thurston Gardens since 1955, this museum holds artifacts spanning some 3,700 years of Fijian history, from the great Ratu Finau double-hulled canoe to the rudder of HMS Bounty. ### 4. Government House - Coordinates: -18.15189, 178.42614 - In one line: After lightning destroyed the original residence in 1921, this Georgian mansion was completed in 1928 on Queen Elizabeth Drive. Once home to colonial governors, it now serves as the official residence of Fiji's President, with a monthly changing of the guard. ### 5. Thurston Gardens - Coordinates: -18.1491, 178.4247 - In one line: Created in the 1880s as the Suva Botanical Gardens and reorganised in 1913, this tropical garden was renamed in 1976 for Governor Sir John Bates Thurston. Palms, gingers, and water lilies surround a 1918 clock tower and the Fiji Museum. ### 6. Government Buildings - Coordinates: -18.1444, 178.4258 - In one line: Built between 1937 and 1939 on a drained creek bed, this imposing colonial complex with its clock tower was the seat of Fiji's administration and home to Parliament until 1992. Its foundations rest on more than five kilometres of concrete piling. ### 7. Albert Park - Coordinates: -18.146, 178.4248 - In one line: This central sports ground opposite the Grand Pacific Hotel has staged Fiji's national moments, from the 1928 landing of aviator Charles Kingsford Smith to the celebrations of independence. Cricket, rugby, parades, and carnivals fill its open green by the harbour. ### 8. Suva Carnegie Library - Coordinates: -18.141, 178.4253 - In one line: Funded by an Andrew Carnegie grant and opened in 1909, this columned colonial building on Victoria Parade opened for a public library service that had operated in Victoria Memorial Hall since 1904. Its portico and reading rooms remain a beloved civic landmark in Fiji's capital. ### 9. Suva Municipal Market - Coordinates: -18.1393, 178.429 - In one line: Fiji's largest produce market, on its present site since 1949 between Harris Road and Rodwell Road. On busy Fridays and Saturdays as many as 3,500 vendors sell taro, tropical fruit, seafood, and mounds of kava root. ### 10. Reserve Bank of Fiji - Coordinates: -18.1396, 178.4251 - In one line: Fiji's central bank, which began operations in 1984 in a fourteen-storey tower then the tallest building in the country. It issues the Fijian dollar, guards monetary stability, and houses a money museum near the harbourfront. ### 11. Suva Old Town Hall - Coordinates: -18.1418, 178.4258 - In one line: Opened in 1905 as the Queen Victoria Memorial Hall, this Victorian civic building on Victoria Parade once hosted theatre, dances, and bazaars. Over a century it has held a museum, an aquarium, and restaurants beside the city library. ### 12. Centenary Methodist Church - Coordinates: -18.1432, 178.4256 - In one line: Opened in 1954, this downtown church marks a century of Methodism in Fiji, dating from the Wesleyan missionaries who landed in 1835. Known as the cathedral of Fijian Methodism, it serves the country's largest Christian denomination. ### 13. Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral - Coordinates: -18.143, 178.426 - In one line: The Anglican cathedral of the Diocese of Polynesia in central Suva, with roots in the colony's early years and a bishop first enthroned here in 1908. Its colonial Gothic stone tower and timber-roofed nave anchor the city. ### 14. Victoria Parade - Coordinates: -18.1442, 178.4255 - In one line: Suva's main boulevard, named for Queen Victoria and running beside the harbour. The civic and commercial spine of the capital, it lines colonial shopfronts, banks, and government buildings along ground reclaimed from the sea. ### 15. Ratu Sukuna Park - Coordinates: -18.1408, 178.4268 - In one line: A central waterfront green named for Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, the scholar-soldier-statesman who helped shape modern Fiji. Created on reclaimed foreshore in 1955, it hosts markets, festivals, and lunchtime crowds beside Victoria Parade. ### 16. Suva Cenotaph War Memorial - Coordinates: -18.141, 178.4265 - In one line: Suva's war memorial honours Fijians who served and died in the World Wars and later conflicts. Standing near the waterfront civic precinct, it gathers crowds each year on Remembrance Day and ANZAC Day for solemn wreath-laying ceremonies. ### 17. Parliament of Fiji - Coordinates: -18.1499, 178.4452 - In one line: Fiji's parliamentary complex at Veiuto opened in 1992, its layout modelled on a traditional Fijian village. The main chamber rises highest, like a chief's bure above the village green, fusing democratic function with indigenous design. ### 18. Suva Point - Coordinates: -18.1556, 178.4519 - In one line: The tip of the Suva peninsula, where the city meets the sea at Laucala Bay. ### 19. Walu Bay - Coordinates: -18.1335, 178.428 - In one line: Suva's largest industrial district, with industrial sites created by extensive reclamation in 1913–16. Once known as Waluwalu, it now holds factories, warehouses, shipyards, container yards, and a brewery along a busy working stretch of the harbour. ### 20. Suva Harbour - Coordinates: -18.132, 178.425 - In one line: The deep, reef-sheltered harbour that gave Suva its reason to exist and made it Fiji's capital. A natural anchorage on Viti Levu's south coast, it remains the country's busiest port for cargo, tankers, and cruise ships. ### 21. The Triangle - Coordinates: -18.1405, 178.4258 - In one line: Suva's symbolic centre, a small triangular green shaded by an ivi tree. A whitewashed marker records milestones in Fiji's history, from the first missionaries to the founding of the capital, though some of its dates are famously inaccurate. ### 22. National Archives of Fiji - Coordinates: -18.1447, 178.4265 - In one line: The National Archives of Fiji preserves the nation's documentary memory on Carnarvon Street in Suva. Founded in 1954 and renamed after independence, it safeguards roughly a million records, historical photographs, and rare film footage open to researchers. ### 23. HFC Bank Stadium - Coordinates: -18.15, 178.449 - In one line: HFC Bank Stadium is Fiji's national arena, seating about 15,446. Opened as Buckhurst Park in 1951 and rebuilt for the 1979 South Pacific Games, it hosts rugby, football, and athletics, including the Fijian Drua and the national teams. ### 24. Vodafone Arena - Coordinates: -18.14694, 178.45028 - In one line: Vodafone Arena is Suva's main indoor venue, holding around 4,000 spectators. Built for the 2003 South Pacific Games and once called the FMF Dome, it stages netball, basketball, concerts, and conventions under one large roof in the Fijian capital. ### 25. University of the South Pacific - Coordinates: -18.1497, 178.4456 - In one line: The University of the South Pacific, founded in 1968, spreads across its Laucala Bay campus in Suva, built on a former seaplane base. Owned by 12 Pacific nations, it is one of the world's most international universities and the region's leading center of learning. ### 26. Suva Courthouse - Coordinates: -18.1445, 178.4262 - In one line: The Suva Courthouse occupies the colonnaded Government Buildings, built between 1937 and 1939 in a stripped classical style. Crowned by a clock tower, it houses the High Court of Fiji, the heart of the nation's judiciary on Victoria Parade. ### 27. My Suva Picnic Park - Coordinates: -18.1535, 178.45 - In one line: My Suva Picnic Park is a waterfront green space along Queen Elizabeth Drive at Nasese, opened in 2013. ### 28. Toorak - Coordinates: -18.145, 178.431 - In one line: Toorak is a hillside Suva neighbourhood named after Melbourne's fashionable suburb. Once the city's finest address, this gridded quarter of Indo-Fijian and Chinese traders, churches, schools, and the city mosque is now a busy, lived-in slice of working Suva. ### 29. Samabula - Coordinates: -18.13, 178.448 - In one line: Samabula is one of Suva's official city wards, an urban district that mixes homes, workshops, warehouses and shops. With its own busy town centre and a university nearby, it works hard and never quite slows down. ### 30. Flagstaff - Coordinates: -18.139, 178.44 - In one line: Flagstaff is a residential pocket of Suva set on the peninsula's hilly inland slopes. ### 31. Nasese - Coordinates: -18.153, 178.438 - In one line: Nasese is a seafront residential district on Suva's peninsula, fringing Laucala Bay. ### 32. Muanikau - Coordinates: -18.151, 178.433 - In one line: Muanikau is one of Suva's official city wards, an urban district that is mostly industrial and residential. It holds large sporting venues, a university and recreational areas, making it a hub for both work and play in the capital. ### 33. Tamavua - Coordinates: -18.12, 178.445 - In one line: Tamavua is one of Suva's official city wards, an urban district that is mostly residential. Set on the higher inland slopes and later annexed by the capital, it is a settled hillside quarter of homes above the busy city. ### 34. Suva Flea Market - Coordinates: -18.1388, 178.4285 - In one line: The Suva Flea Market is a bustling stall market in the capital's centre, near Terry Walk. Vendors sell handicrafts, sulus, souvenirs, clothing and local ware, making it a colourful, crowded hub of everyday trade and Fijian craft. ### 35. WG Friendship Plaza - Coordinates: -18.14639, 178.43083 - In one line: WG Friendship Plaza is a 28-storey mixed-use skyscraper on McGregor Road in Suva. Rising 112 metres with hotel, apartments and offices, it is Fiji's tallest building and the tallest in Oceania outside Australia and New Zealand. ### 36. Suva Grammar School - Coordinates: -18.1605, 178.4375 - In one line: Founded in 1917 and settled on its Nasese site in 1960, Suva Grammar School is one of Fiji's oldest and most respected secondary schools, famed for academics, athletics, and a long roll of national leaders. ### 37. Marist Brothers High School - Coordinates: -18.1466, 178.4352 - In one line: A Roman Catholic boys' secondary school in Flagstaff, Suva, run by the Marist Brothers since the 1940s, with roots reaching back to their first Fiji school in 1888. It is renowned for academics, faith, and a fierce sporting tradition. ### 38. Colo-i-Suva Forest Reserve - Coordinates: -18.07, 178.36 - In one line: A lush rainforest reserve in the hills above Suva, threaded with trails, natural swimming pools, and waterfalls. Its mahogany plantations date from the 1940s, and in 2018 it joined the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy. ### 39. Suva Fiji Temple - Coordinates: -18.11972, 178.43856 - In one line: The first temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fiji, dedicated in 2000. Clad in white Italian granite and crowned by a single spire and the angel Moroni, it serves Latter-day Saints across the Pacific. ### 40. Lami - Coordinates: -18.11667, 178.41667 - In one line: A bustling town just northwest of Suva on Viti Levu, incorporated in 1977 and home to around 20,000 people. Its market, shops, and bayside setting make it a busy gateway between the capital and Fiji's western coast. ## Roots Earth in short Roots Earth has audio stories about 5,665 places in 130 cities, 25 countries and 6 regions, written by local people. - No account - Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection - Audio stories in English and German in every city, and in Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian in 126 of the 130 cities Roots Earth for Android is available on Google Play: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app). ## More from Roots Earth - [Oceania in the Roots Earth catalogue](https://rootsearth.com/cities#oceania): every city in Oceania with its number of places and its languages. - [What Roots Earth is](https://rootsearth.com/app): the app in one page, how it works and what is in it. - [Questions travellers ask](https://rootsearth.com/faq): the cities, the languages, the account, listening without a connection. - [The 7 languages](https://rootsearth.com/languages): the seven languages with their codes and how many cities each one covers. - [Lautoka](https://rootsearth.com/cities/lautoka): 40 places in Fiji with audio stories. - [Levuka](https://rootsearth.com/cities/levuka): 40 places in Fiji with audio stories. - [Nadi](https://rootsearth.com/cities/nadi): 40 places in Fiji with audio stories. - [Sigatoka](https://rootsearth.com/cities/sigatoka): 40 places in Fiji with audio stories. 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