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Fitzroy Gardens

City of Melbourne, AU

Fitzroy Gardens

The Fitzroy Gardens is a 26-hectare (64-acre) urban park located south-east of the city centre of Melbourne 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. Established in 1848, the gardens are one of the major Victorian era landscaped gardens in Australia. Set within the gardens are an ornamental lake, a scarred tree, a visitor information centre and cafe, a conservatory, Cooks' Cottage (a house where the parents of James Cook lived, brought to Australia from England in the 1930s), tree-lined avenues, a model Tudor village, a band pavilion, a rotunda, the "Fairies' Tree", fountains and numerous sculptures. The gardens were added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 6 August 1999 in recognition of their historical, aesthetic, architectural, scientific, and social significance. On an unknown date, the gardens and several associated structures in the gardens were added to the now defunct Register of the National Estate; and to a non-statutory list by the Victorian branch of the National Trust. The gardens are located on the traditional...

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