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City Museum At Old Treasury
Built in 1862 at the height of the heady gold rush, the Old Treasury is fittingly elegant and opulent. The huge basement vaults were designed to house much of the around A$200 million worth of gold that came from the Victorian goldfields. Remarkably, the designer, JJ Clark, was a 19-year-old government draftsman who also designed the City Baths. The Old Treasury building has regularly changing exhibitions and houses the Gold Treasury Museum, which has three permanent exhibitions: Built on Gold, Making Melbourne, and Growing Up in the Old Treasury.
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Edinburgh Gardens
Established European elms line the tranquil walking paths of this 140-year-old parkland. Not far from the North Fitzroy cafe strip, these gardens are an ideal place to laze about. On weekends, wedding parties invade the rotunda while picnic blankets are spread, Frisbees flung and barbecues fired up. Should the mood take you, there's a lawn bowls green next door .
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Fawkner Park
This huge expanse of open grassy fields is loved and used by the area's sports folk and lapdogs alike. Walkways lined with elms, oaks and Moreton Bay fig trees provide structure to the otherwise open fields. The fields, leased as recently as the 1920s for cattle grazing, are now used for all manner of sports. Barbecues and Art Deco pavilions are available for public use.
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Fitzroy Gardens
The city drops away suddenly just east of Spring St, giving way to Melbourne's beautiful backyard, the Fitzroy Gardens. The stately avenues lined with English elms, flowerbeds tucked in neatly, expansive lawns and trickling creek are a short stroll from town. At weekends, a cavalcade of wedding photographers and stretched cars deliver the princesses-for-a-day to document their white gowns and princes.
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Flagstaff Gardens
These bustling gardens are popular with workers taking a lunchtime break to soak up some vitamin D. The park has a children's playground, barbecues and a lawn-bowling green.
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