Sunday, September 21, 2014


Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne Is the Queen Victoria Market (also known as the Queen Vic markets or Queen Victoria) relative to Queen Victoria, who ruled the British Empire from 1837 to 1901, a milestone in the Australian city of Melbourne, as the largest outdoor market in the southern hemisphere until it has been included on the list Victorian heritage as one of the symbols of culture and heritage in Melbourne, no wonder that in this market is the only remaining between the markets of the nineteenth century in the city after the market closes eastern and western market in the sixties of the last century.
Extends the market on an area of ​​17 acres, and limits the market bottom street of Queen Elizabeth and Victoria and the saints and street Terry, and the market top is bordered by Queen Victoria Street, St. Franklin, and you'll find within walking distance of the director of St. Elizabeth of the central station of the railway in Melbourne or station flagpole on the corner of Latrobe and St. William.
Was opened by Queen Victoria Market officially in the March 20, 1878, after he began as a market small in East Melbourne in 1850, and then gradually expand after the closure of the cemetery Melbourne old, and still there are nearly nine thousand bodies of carcasses under Bishop and parking in the market to date. The memorial was held for this remains on the corner of Queen Street and Queen Street Terry to stop the controversial due to the closure of the cemetery. However, the market has also faced many attempts to close it but failed and was most recently in 1970 when the imposition of union construction workers and community groups a ban on close.
The market was Victoria originally for the sale of fruits and vegetables retail and known as a market for goods pirated, but that image has been greatly improved after a major security crackdown in 1997, and since that time, prices have risen in the market significantly, and continued to work to improve it so that in 2003 added power panels solar roofs to the market to cover 2,000 square meters and generate 252,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually, which is considered the largest organ of renewable energy in the city of Melbourne.

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