- Address: 1-111 Carlton St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia;
- Official website: melbourne.vic.gov.au;
- Phone: +61 3 9658 9658.
Carlton Gardens is a green oasis in the midst of a busy business district and one of Melbourne 's most famous tourist business cards. This small square represents an exceptional architectural, historical, aesthetic and scientific value for the state of Victoria. Together with the Royal Exhibition Center, the Karlston Gardens form a garden and park complex, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
History of the Karlston Gardens
The first plantations on this site appeared immediately after the founding of Melbourne . In the middle of the 19th century. plots of land in the city were actively sold and built up, but the governor of the colony Charles La Troub special decree allocated several plots for public gardens. Among them were the future Karlston Gardens. The main works on the design and construction of gardens were carried out for several decades. Visitors to the International Trade Fair, held in 1880 in Melbourne, were amazed at the beauty of the chic Victorian garden with two artificial small lakes and beautiful fountains that emphasize the architecture of the exhibition center.
Karlston Gardens in our days
Gardens have a regular quadrangular shape and a total area of about 26 hectares. The park is divided into separate sections by several wide alleys, one of which, the Big Plane Alley, leads directly to the exhibition center. Gardens have gained popularity among the townspeople as a convenient place for a picnic and barbecue. For connoisseurs of beautiful Carlton gardens will like their landscape design, preserving elements of the style of the Victorian era of the 19th century. Among the trees you can consider the best examples of Australian and European flora: white poplar, oak tree, plane trees, coniferous trees, elms, araucaria, local evergreen trees. Several luxurious flowerbeds and flower beds from annual plants have been built. During a leisurely walk along the shady paths of the gardens you can meet representatives of the local fauna. Visit Karlston Gardens can take all day, because in their territory is the Melbourne City Museum, a sports complex with shady courts, a cinema "Imax". And for small visitors there is a children's playground, designed in the spirit of the era - in the form of a Victorian labyrinth.
How to get there?
Karlston Gardens are located on the outskirts of the Central Business District of Melbourne. You can get there by the city tram, route Nos. 86, 95, 96, the landmark is the intersection of Getruda Street and Nicholson Street.
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