Wednesday 17 August 2016

FITZROY GARDENS WALK

The Fitzroy Gardens are 26 hectares (64 acres) located on the southeastern edge of the Melbourne Central Business District in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The gardens are bounded by Clarendon Street, Albert Street, Lansdowne Street, and Wellington Parade with the Treasury Gardens across Lansdowne street to the west. The gardens are one of the major Victorian era landscaped gardens in Australia and add to Melbourne's claim to being the garden city of Australia.

The Fitzroy Gardens are of historical significance as one of a ring of public reserves around Melbourne established in the nineteenth century to provide respite and relaxation for the city's residents. The Fitzroy Gardens have been viewed as the flagship of this group of city gardens, which includes the Flagstaff, Treasury, Carlton and Alexandra Gardens and the Kings Domain. In a statewide context, while not as intact as the Royal Botanic Gardens or the Ballarat Botanical Gardens, the Fitzroy Gardens are an important remnant of the city's nineteenth-century garden heritage.

They are also a reminder of the city's relatively large investment in public gardens, a reflection of 19th century beliefs about the moral and health benefits of green spaces in often dirty, smelly and overcrowded cities. The Fitzroy Gardens are of social significance because, from their establishment in the early 1860s, the Gardens have been a place of relaxation, passive recreation and entertainment; the Gardens have been the people's park in the city.

This post is part of the Wednesday Waters meme,
and also part of the Waterworld Wednesday meme,
and also part of the Outdoor Wednesday meme,
and also part of the Wordless Wednesday meme,
and also part of the  ABC Wednesday meme,
and also part of the Trees & Bushes meme.









8 comments:

  1. Wow, what a beautiful place. Great pictures!

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  2. oh my, so large? although far to large for me I would love to walk there and look at it myself...

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  3. Enjoyed your cyber tour of this garden. It is beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Have a great week-end. See you next week.
    JM, Illinois-U.S.A.

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  4. I would love to spend a day in this garden.

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  5. WOW and every other adjective- truly gorgeous.
    Ann

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  6. Great photos! What sort of bird is that? We don't have them here, but I like its markings.
    Thanks for sharing at http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2016/08/sweetheart-in-sepia.html

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  7. These gardens are such a wonderful place to escape from city bustle. Love walking here and enjoy the displays in the Conservatory too.

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