theculturetrip.com
The words ‘cool’ and ‘Melbourne’ go together like toasted sourdough and smashed avo, a laneway and graffiti art, or a cold beer and a warm pie watching the footy at the MCG. Sydney might boast about beaches and weather, but its southern neighbour lays claim to art, food, coffee, music and sport. So much of Melbourne was built in the Victorian style by the riches that arrived with the Gold Rush in the 1850s, but a wave of European migration after World War Two – then the irrepressible rise of th…
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