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Columns, Columns & Carlton: The Gold Rush City Trace the extraordinary wealth and ambition of Victoria's gold rush era through the grand institutions, World Heritage architecture and sprawling gardens it left behind.
Includes ~15 min walking between stops. Plan around opening hours.
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Queen Victoria Market ⏱ 18 min ♡ ▼
Queen Victoria Market is a photographer's dream, but to capture it well, you need timing and positioning. The best light is in the early mor…
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Royal Exhibition Building & Carlton Gardens ⏱ 45 min ♡ ▼
Picture Melbourne in the 1870s — a city intoxicated by its own success. Gold had made Victoria rich, and merchants and politicians wanted th…
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Melbourne Museum ⏱ 120 min ♡ ▼
Melbourne's museum story begins in 1854, not here, but hidden in a government office on La Trobe Street. That's when the Government Assay Of…
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Fitzroy Gardens & Captain Cook's Cottage ⏱ 25 min ♡ ▼
Melbourne sits on the edge of the Dandenong Ranges, the southeastern terminus of the Great Dividing Range. Fitzroy Gardens occupies land at …
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Melbourne Cricket Ground ⏱ 12 min ♡ ▼
Picture this: 1838, and a group of cricket enthusiasts in Melbourne founded what would become the Melbourne Cricket Club. Fast forward just …
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St Paul's Cathedral Melbourne ⏱ 12 min ♡ ▼
What you're looking at is a masterclass in Gothic Revival, that soaring Victorian style that reaches toward heaven. The three spires dominat…
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Flinders Street Station ⏱ 12 min ♡ ▼
Picture September 12th, 1854. A crowd gathers at what was then just a collection of weatherboard sheds on the banks of the Yarra River. They…
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