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Melbourne is an energetic and passionate city, and has a strong European feel with all of its many excellent coffee houses, outdoor cafes, fine dining restaurants and fashion shops. The Yarra river cuts through the city, and the South Bank area is very attractive and provides many high quality eateries including the world renowned restaurants Nobu, Giuseppe and Bistro Guillaume. If you are interested in foods then you will find all kinds of cuisines in Melbourne, from Lebanese to Vietnamese, and the many food markets around the city are a delight for shoppers.

Yarra River And Skyline in Melbourne

Visiting the big city of Melbourne is in some neighborhoods a travel in time. You can find all over city some buildings from the good old Victorian times, as Melbourne was in 1890 the second most populous and the richest British city, due to the Australian Gold rush. Then took place a market crash, but the city survived and flourished after a few years again. The crisis periods came and gone, but the city persisted. Now Melbourne is a little less than Sidney, Australia’s biggest city. A strong competitions is given between these two cities, and according some scenarios Melbourne will overcome and become again the biggest city of Australia in 5 years.

Yarra River and the skyline of Melbourne