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Castlemaine is a small city in Victoria, Australia, in the goldfields region of Victoria about 120 kilometres northwest by road from Melbourne and about 40 kilometres from the major provincial centre of Bendigo. Castlemaine is the administrative and economic centre of the Shire of Mount Alexander. The population of Castlemaine at the 2011 Census was 6,751. Castlemaine began as a gold rush boomtown in 1851 and developed into a major regional centre, being officially proclaimed a City on 4 December 1965, although since declining in population. Castlemaine is home to many cultural institutions including the Theatre Royal, the oldest continuously operating theatre in mainland Australia.