You are now on a tour inside the oldest and most famous markets in the southern hemisphere at all, you should prepare for a shopping trip will not forget because you're on a date to visit the market, Queen Victoria in Melbourne, which you will feel during your password when fragrance history and modern present, as well as the magnificence of goods and products, which provide the best price, and there already feel that this market deserves to be nicknamed the Queen.
Queen Victoria is a market (also known as the markets you Queen Victoria or Queen) relative to the Queen Victoria, who ruled the British Empire 1837-1901, a landmark in the 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 this market is the only remaining between the markets of the nineteenth century in the city after the market closes the eastern and the western market in the sixties of the last century.
Extending the market area of 17 acres, and limits the market the lower Queen Street Elizabeth, Victoria and the saints, and St. Terry, and the market top is bordered by Queen Street Victoria, and St. Franklin, and you will find within walking distance of the director of St. Elizabeth of the central station of the railway in Melbourne or station the flag pole on the corner of Latrobe and St. William.
Opened the market, Queen Victoria officially in March 20, 1878, having started as a market in a small East Melbourne in 1850, and then expand gradually after closing the cemetery Melbourne old, and still there are nearly nine thousand bodies of carcasses under the roofs and parking in the market to date. And held a memorial for the remains on the corner of Queen Street and Queen Street Terry to stop because of the controversial closure of the cemetery. However, the market has also faced several attempts to close it but failed and the last was 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 fruit and vegetable retail and known as a market for goods pirated, but that his image has been greatly improved after a major security crackdown in 1997, and since that time, prices in the market significantly, and continued work to improve it so that in 2003 Added panels for energy solar to the roofs of the market to cover 2000 square meters and generate 252,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually, which was considered the largest organ of renewable energy in the city of Melbourne.
Victoria market is a major tourist destination in Melbourne, offering a range of fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry and seafood, as well as a variety of clothing, shoes, jewelry, arts and crafts. The famous Baldonat hot cakes and jam for half a century that has become part of local traditions. There you can see the friendly competition between the owners of stalls and rooms for sale to attract customers, which gives the market the old-world charm and the ability to attract millions of visitors each year.
Having devoted nearly half the size of the market to sell fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, chicken, seafood and different products, while using the space remaining in the market for the sale of a variety of goods specialist that resonate widely among the masses especially on Sunday which is today considered the most attractive for visitors and shoppers.
You can gain experience of bargaining power in this market, which provides goods and products at local rates, which is a bazaar trade and tourism in the open air, especially on Sundays, which turns the market into a cafe and park and an arena for horse riding and many other activities. Apart from the goods displayed in the Queen Victoria Market, buskers in the streets and entertainment market is a feature in this day of the week.
In the market can be enjoyed in various forms of entertainment, as well as tasting some of the best types of food in the streets and movement from a variety of artisans booths. Yvonne and to spend the night of Wednesday in the market place where fun night markets provide the food, and open the cafes and kiosks Wednesday evenings in the summer months.
Queen Victoria Market has a number of sections hall Dili, and the Elizabeth Street Mall, Victoria Chari commercial as well as rooms for fruits and vegetables, meat and general merchandise, department stores and miscellaneous. It starts working from six in the morning until two in the evening on Tuesday and Thursday, and six in the morning until six in the evening (with the closing section of general merchandise in four o'clock pm) on Friday, and from six o'clock am to three pm on Saturday, and nine in the morning until four pm on Sunday , and it is closed completely on Monday and Wednesday, and in some occasions, such as Good Friday, the Melbourne Cup, Holiday Birth, and in the New Year's Day.
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