Melbourne’s CBD is a diverse mix of style, entertainment and
business. Melbourne is a great city to explore on foot as
there is always something interesting around every corner.
Most of Melbourne's major attractions are within walking
distance of the city-
Chinatown, Federation Square, The MCG,
Docklands, The Queen
Victoria Market and Crown
Casino to name a few.
Federation Square is Melbourne's newest icon. This artistic
triangle structure is the 'new meeting place' with bars,
cafes, restaurants and some of the world's best art
galleries and museums.
Trams play a big part of Melbourne’s public transport and are
a perfect way for the tourist to get around the city either
on one of the free brown city circle trams or by venturing
further away from the CBD to perhaps
St Kilda or
Fitzroy.
Melbourne's brand new Federation Square is in great
contrast to the historic buildings in Flinders Street
So the story goes, the plans for a
railway station in Bombay mixed up with Melbourne by
a London architect to Melbourne's Flinders Street
Station was built of Bombay's blueprints
Over recent years Melbourne's city area has attracted
thousands of apartments. Many old buildings have been
renovated with a new lease of life for city living.
large high rises have also been developed including the
'worlds highest' apartment, the Eureka Tower which will soar
nearly 300 meters into the clouds when finished in 2006.
Melbourne is Australia's shopping capital. In the heart of
the CBD there are stylish boutiques in the new shopping
centres; QV, the recently developed Post Office and
Melbourne Central, huge department stores of Myer and David
Jones and thousands of specialty shops in lanes and arcades
. Melbourne is one of the worlds greatest shopping
adventures! One highlight is the historic Royal
Arcade which can be found off Bourke Street.
Restaurants of all types can be found all across the city
with the most popular spots to visit being
Chinatown,Lygon Street,
Southgate and Crown
Casino. Bars and Nightclubs can also be found all across
Melbourne in great numbers, A recent trend is making some of
the hippest and coolest bars very hard to find. A building
at the end of an alley way that looks like a meat packing
plant by day may be one of Melbourne’s hottest nightspots.
Bars like the Gin Palace in Russell Place are only
recognized by "GP" above a door in this small laneway, over
in tiny Meyers Place a bar with no name above the door has
become know as simply "Meyers Place" and when it is closed
you wouldn’t know it existed.
MELBOURNE
