Wednesday 4 April 2018

DESKTOP 1709 - MARKET

The Queen Victoria Market is a major landmark in Melbourne, Australia, and at around seven hectares (17 acres) is the largest open air market in the Southern Hemisphere. The Market is significant to Melbourne's culture and heritage and has been listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. The Market is named after Queen Victoria who ruled the British Empire, from 1837 to 1901.

The Queen Victoria Market is the only surviving 19th century market in the Melbourne central business district. There were once three major markets in the Melbourne CBD, but two of them, the Eastern Market and Western Market, both opened before the Queen Victoria, closed in the 1960s. The market also forms part of an important collection of surviving Victorian markets which includes the inner suburban Prahran Market and South Melbourne Market.

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4 comments:

  1. Su-sieee! Mac4 April 2018 at 10:21

    Open markets are so neat. I suppose the weekly farmers markets are the closest things to that in our area.

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  2. NCSue4 April 2018 at 12:02

    What a lovely scene!
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  3. ABC-Wednesday5 April 2018 at 00:18

    Hardly ever visit one but some are quit nice aren't they

    Have a splendid, ♥-warming ABC-Wednes-day / -week
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  4. Roger Owen Green9 April 2018 at 16:06

    a nice market indeed

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