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The Royal Exhibition Building from the main avenue of the Carlton Gardens Victorian architecture dwarfed by the Rialto Towers. Melbourne's buildings and structures feature a wide variety of architectural designs, and the city is home to the Royal Exhibition Building, the first Australian building to be listed on the World Heritage Register.
Melbourne is considered one of the safest world cities for travellers. [206] [207] Queen Victoria Market is the Southern Hemisphere's largest open air market. Melbourne has a renowned culinary scene that attracts international tourists.
Notable protests that used the stairs as a gathering point and podium for speeches include the 2020 Black Lives Matter protest [17] and several anti-lockdown protests during the COVID-19 pandemic, [18] While individuals or groups are not required to obtain permission from the City of Melbourne to hold a protest on the stairs of Parliament House ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Melbourne: Melbourne – Largest city in Victoria, second-largest city in Australia and Oceania. [1] It is located in the South-East of Australia, and is a major economic centre in the Asia-Pacific. The city is home to 4,917,750 people as of the 2021 census. [1]
Flinders Street station during White Night 2013. Tourism is a significant industry in the state of Victoria, Australia.The country's second most-populous city, Melbourne was visited by 2.7 million international overnight visitors and 9.3 million domestic overnight visitors during the year ending December 2017.
The Melbourne Museum is a natural and cultural history museum located in the Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, Australia. Located adjacent to the Royal Exhibition Building , [ 1 ] the museum was opened in 2000 as a project of the Government of Victoria , on behalf of Museums Victoria which administers the venue.
Yarra Trams Z-class tram beside a Melbourne Bus Link Scania bus, with a Metro Trains X'Trapolis 100 passing above Road map of the Melbourne metropolitan area by OpenStreetMap. Transport in Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia, consists of several interlinking modes. Melbourne is a hub for intercity, intracity and regional travel.
Luna Park was built by American showman J.D. Williams, [3] together with the Phillips brothers Harold, Leon and Herman. Not much is known of their background, but they were involved in the building of picture theatres in Spokane, Washington and Vancouver before coming to Sydney in 1909 and quickly establishing a chain of luxury cinemas in that city and then Melbourne.