The interior of Little Black Pig and Sons in Heidelberg. (Photo by Wayne Taylor/Fairfax Media)

Heidelberg: What’s a Germanic name doing in a place like this?

Heidelberg may very well owe its title to an early piece of real estate salesmanship, with some tales relating that a colonial-era land agent changed its name from the indigenous “Warringal” in order to promote its resemblance to the famed European landscape of rolling green intersected by a grand river.

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