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Flinders Street Station

"I'll meet you under the clocks" is Melbourne's most famous phrase, and the clocks in question hang above the entrance of Flinders Street Station, Australia's first city railway station. Opened on September 12, 1854, thi…

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Parliament House

When construction began on Melbourne's Parliament House in 1855, the gold rush was transforming Victoria into one of the wealthiest places on Earth, and the colonists decided their government deserved a building to match…

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The Princess Theatre

Melbourne's magnificent Princess Theatre holds a distinction that few entertainment venues can claim: it's the oldest surviving entertainment site on mainland Australia, with roots stretching back to 1854 when the gold r…

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Her Majesty's Theatre

Behind its striking Art Deco facade on Exhibition Street, Her Majesty's Theatre holds a story of fire, reinvention, and theatrical resilience. Originally opened as the Alexandra Theatre on October 1, 1886, it was renamed…

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Hotel Windsor

Before the Waldorf Astoria, before Raffles, before the Ritz, and before the Savoy, there was the Hotel Windsor. Melbourne's only surviving purpose-built "grand" Victorian hotel has been holding court on Spring Street sin…

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AC/DC Lane Graffiti

On October 1, 2004, the Lord Mayor of Melbourne stood in a grimy city laneway and declared: "Highway to Hell? This is a laneway to heaven!" With that, Corporation Lane was officially renamed AC/DC Lane, making Melbourne …

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Meyers Place

Every great cultural movement needs a birthplace, and Melbourne's legendary laneway bar scene started right here in Meyers Place in 1994. Originally known as Nicholas Lane, this narrow passage is one of the CBD's oldest …

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Coles Fountain

In Parliament Gardens, a gleaming stainless-steel fountain invites you to do something unusual: step inside it. Created by sculptor Robert Woodward and gifted by the G.J. Coles company, the Coles Fountain was opened on N…

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Cook's Cottage

Here's a fact that astonishes most visitors: the quaint stone cottage sitting in Melbourne's Fitzroy Gardens was built in 1755 in the English village of Great Ayton, Yorkshire, over 16,000 kilometres away from where it s…

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The Faeries Tree

Deep in the leafy pathways of Fitzroy Gardens, a tree stump has been home to an enchanted community of gnomes, fairies, koalas, and flying foxes since the early 1930s. The Faeries Tree was carved by sculptor Ola Cohn bet…

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H&M Melbourne

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Collins Hair

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St Paul's Cathedral

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Chinatown

Melbourne's Chinatown runs along Little Bourke Street under painted arches and is among the oldest continuously operating Chinese quarters in the western world. The laneways off it hold most of the good eating.

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