A private half-day Melbourne city tour, real stops at Federation Square and Queen Victoria Market.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at Federation Square and the genuine Queen Victoria Market.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Federation Square and the genuine Queen Victoria Market.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Melbourne.
A real, genuine Melbourne cultural precinct.
Real, genuine historic market.
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at Federation Square and the genuine Queen Victoria Market. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Federation Square and the genuine Queen Victoria Market.
Federation Square, one of this tour's real stops, is a genuinely recent addition to Melbourne's streetscape — it opened on 26 October 2002, built over what had been a tangle of railyards and the demolished Gas and Fuel Buildings. The $450 million project, designed by the London-based Lab Architecture Studio (working with Melbourne firm Bates Smart) after winning a 1997 design competition from 177 entries, was conceived to mark the 2001 centenary of Australian Federation. Its bold, fractured geometric facades were controversial when new, but surveys have since found roughly 90 percent of Melburnians like at least some part of it — it's now firmly the city's civic heart.
Queen Victoria Market, the tour's other confirmed stop, tells a far older story. It opened on 20 March 1878 and has grown into the largest and most intact of Melbourne's great 19th-century markets, as well as the largest open-air market in the entire Southern Hemisphere. Part of its site was once Melbourne's first official cemetery, used between 1837 and 1854 and holding an estimated 10,000 early burials; a section recognised as an Aboriginal historic place under the Aboriginal Heritage Act sits at the market's Queen and Victoria streets corner, a reminder of the site's layered and, at points, difficult history.
Put side by side, the two stops frame two very different eras of the same city: the raw, gold-rush-era Melbourne that built a 19th-century produce market on the edge of a colonial cemetery, and the self-consciously modern Melbourne that, a century and a quarter later, built a landmark public square to mark its own centenary of nationhood.
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