DESTINATION MELBOURNE

Melbourne, often referred to as the sporting capital of Australia, hosts many major Australian sporting events including: the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, the Australian Formula One Grand Prix, the Australian Tennis Open and the AFL Grand Final. Melbourne hosted the first Olympic Games in the southern hemisphere in 1956, as well as the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Quick Links Melbourne Cricket Royal Exhibition Federation Square Luna Park

DESTINATION MELBOURNE: Melbourne Aquarium, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Birrarung Marr, Federation Square, Fitzroy Gardens, Flinders Street Station, Luna Park, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Parliament House, Royal Exhibition Building,

MELBOURNE AQUARIUM Melbourne Aquarium is a Southern Ocean and Antarctic aquarium in central Melbourne. It is located on the banks of the Yarra River beside and under the Flinders Street Viaduct and the King Street Bridge. The Melbourne Aquarium recently underwent a significant expansion and extends from the Yarra River to Flinders Street ...

AUSTRALIA CENTRE FOR THE MOVING IMAGE The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, or ACMI, is dedicated to the moving image in all its forms. It is located in Federation Square, in Melbourne, Australia, across four levels of the Alfred Deakin Building. ACMI is a state-of-the-art facility purpose-built for the preservation, exhibition and promotion of screen content ...

BIRRARUNG MARR Birrarung Marr is an inner-city park between the central business district in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and the Yarra River. It was opened in 2002. The name means 'river of mists' and 'river bank' in the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people, the original Indigenous inhabitants of the Melbourne area ...

FEDERATION SQUARE Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia. It is on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets next to the Yarra River in the heart of the city, stretching from Swanston Street to Queen Street and covering two city blocks ...

FITZROY GARDENS & COOKS COTTAGE The Fitzroy Gardens are one of the major Victorian era landscaped gardens in Australia and add to Melbourne's claim to being the garden city of Australia. Set within the gardens is Cook's Cottage - a house where James Cook reputedly spent some years of his childhood, Sinclair's Cottage, Model Tudor village, the fairy tree...

FLINDERS STREET STATION Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia. It is on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets next to the Yarra River in the heart of the city, stretching from Swanston Street to Queen Street and covering two city blocks ...

LUNA PARK Melbourne's Luna Park is a historic amusement park located on the foreshore of Port Phillip Bay in St Kilda, Victoria, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It opened on December 13th, 1912 and has been operating almost continuously ever since. This was the first of the four Luna Parks that were built in Australia ...

MELBOURNE CRICKET GROUND The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is an iconic Australian sporting venue located in Yarra Park in inner Melbourne, home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It holds the world record for the highest light towers. The MCG is an easy walk from the city centre, and is serviced by Richmond and Jolimont train stations. ...

PARLIAMENT HOUSE, MELBOURNE Parliament House, Melbourne, has been the seat of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia, since 1855, except for the years 1901 to 1928, when it was occupied by the Parliament of Australia. It is the largest 19th century public building in Australia and one of the finest examples of the civic architecture of the British Empire ...

ROYAL EXHIBITION BUILDING The Royal Exhibition Building is located in Melbourne, Australia. It is located in the Carlton Gardens, at the north-eastern edge of the central business district. It sits adjacent to the Melbourne Museum; and is the largest item in Museum Victoria's collection. It was designed by the architect Joseph Reed ) ...

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