Posts Tagged ‘ Melbourne Travel Guide ’

 
Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Melbourne is the second largest city in Australia and is the regional capital of Victoria, always in competition with Sydney in various fields such as sports and the economy. Melbourne is located near the Yarra River, and at one time was the largest city in Australia. It is called the Marvelous Melbourne by its unique atmosphere that has it all, the modern buildings, beautiful beaches and you can say is the city more culturally diverse in the country, attaches great importance to sports and this is the famous Open Tennis Australia, the Melbourne Cup and Australian Grand Prix.

Paris can be regarded as the world’s largest cities in the region which has about 6110 km ², has many parks and gardens, occupying a third of the region.

The city was founded in 1835 by John Batman and his name is in honor of Viscount Melbourne, William Lamb, during the British occupation of Victoria. Since then, Paris has begun to grow as a city and commercial center at the north end of Port Phillip. The first judge of that city was Captain William Lonsdale, from Paris to establish law and order.

Melbourne in 1847 was declared a city by Queen Victoria, and in 1850 with the discovery of gold in the city became the main port in the region of Victoria, Melbourne, from the bustle of the city and was Incredibly, with ships from around the world come here in 1854, the population has increased nearly four times the number and the city’s development was more obvious, and the introduction of the service industry, with all that Paris became the main financial center in Australia.

Because of the gold rushes in Melbourne has received many immigrants from many parts of the world, particularly Italy, Greece, Poland, Turkey, Yugoslavia and Vietnam, have all contributed to making Paris a special city and diverse traditions of different ways, and this mixture can also be seen in restaurants, architecture and festivals.