Melbourne, capital city of Victoria, is located all the way at the bottom, south east of Australia. Housing nearly 4 million people in this city alone, it naturally became the centre of art, culture, education, sport, culinaries, entertainment and obviously tourism. Greeks, Italians, Australians and the Chinese, just to name a few of the many, even have their own precincts in the Central Business District (CBD), main hub of all cultures and people.
Melbourne’s known for/by a few things:
Classified as a “Beta World City” by Loughborough University’s GaWC Research Network
City of Literature by UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network
Top 3 ‘World’s Most Livable’ cities by Economist Group’s Intelligence Unit
Top 10 ‘Global University Cities’ by RMIT’s Global University Cities Index
Top 20 ‘Innovation Cities’ by 2thinknow® Global Innovation Agency
World’s Largest Tram Network
Ain’t this something to be proud of? (smiles)
Zooming in to Melbourne!
Cool Fact:
In 1835, Melbourne was initially known by the name of “Bearbrass”, which changed to it’s existing name in 1837 with respect to William Lamb and Melbourne was in fact, declared a CITY by the Queen Victoria only in the year 1847.
Well, that’s the gist of Melbourne and it’s participation with the world. The next post will be on the specifics of Melbourne.
Meantime, Cheers!
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