- Address: University of La Trobe, 1 Kingsbury Drive, Melbourne
- Architect: Charles Robb
- Justification: 2007
Melbourne is Australia 's second largest city, and of course there are many attractions. The most popular among them are the Eureka Tower and St. Patrick's Cathedral , the Houses of Parliament of Victoria and the Flinders Street Station , the Melbourne Aquarium and the Royal Exhibition Center . But there is a very unusual monument in the capital of the state of Victoria, which must certainly be looked at while in Melbourne.
Who is Charles La Troube?
Near Melbourne University, bearing the name of Charles La Trobe, stands a monument to this famous man. Everyone in Melbourne knows that this is the first lieutenant governor of the Victoria colony, which later became the same state of Australia. La Troub held this honorary post from 1839 to 1854.
Serving as governor, La Troub wanted to make the city of Melbourne even better. He not only founded the University, a library, an art gallery, botanical gardens, but also participated in the greening of the city, making it very picturesque. Also, during the period of Charles La Troub's stay, the region's economic growth began thanks to the Governor's initiative to develop gold mines.
Why is the monument to La Trobe on its head?
There are several versions of why this completely ordinary monument looks so unusual. According to one of them, the architect tried to show that Charles Robb did so much for Melbourne and Australia in general, which literally turned upside down both the culture and the economy of the city.
Another version says that Charles Robb, the governor's namesake, turned the monument, tried to prove the pointlessness of exaltation of all public figures in a row, forgetting about really great ones. This way, having created a statue on the pedestal from the usual composite materials and turned it upside down, the architect installed the first-of-its-kind monument to Charles La Trobe and at the same time criticized the value system of our society.
How to get to the monument to Charles La Trobe?
It is not difficult to find the monument to La Trobe, because it is located right in front of the University of Melbourne, in Bandoura County. You can get here by tram number 86, coming out at the intersection of Kingsbury Drive and Plenty Rd.
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