The country’s previously lackluster artistic infrastructure is starting to rival its world-renowned sporting infrastructure, with new venues rising up in unexpected corners.
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Located around an hour’s drive from Melbourne, the beautiful Yarra Valley is peppered with cute-as-pie country towns, microbreweries and more than 50 wineries.
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The capital of Victoria is known for its culture. Those who linger will be rewarded by the city’s slow-burning charm – from antique trams to leafy parks and bay promenades.
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Some of the world’s best street art can be found in the dark alleyways of Australia’s southern capital, among dumpsters and discarded cardboard boxes.
The Australian city has a love/hate relationship with the spray can, and is home to some of the most amazing street art in the world despite restrictive anti-graffiti laws.
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The optimism and hardship that dominated the lives of pioneering fortune hunters in the 1850s reverberate throughout present-day Victoria.
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