Carlton gardens Photo: Carlton gardens

Listed as a world Heritage site by UNESCO the Park Carlton gardens is situated on the North-Eastern edge of Melbourne's CBD. On its territory in 26 acres located Royal Exhibition building, Melbourne Museum, Imax and the tennis courts and multiple playgrounds for children. In the register of the UNESCO building, the Royal Exhibition Centre and the Carlton Park gardens are listed as "places of historic, architectural, aesthetic, social and scientific significance for the state of Victoria".

Carlton gardens is an outstanding example of landscape design Victorian house with a wide lawn and a variety of plants, representing the European and Australian flora. Among the trees that can be seen in the Park, English and Austrian oaks, poplars, sycamores, elms, firs, cedars, Araucarias and evergreen plants such as ficus macrophylla in combination with annual flowers and shrubs.

In Carlton gardens can be found and animals opossums, ducks, gigantic Belonogov, Calabar and many urban birds.

Wandering through the alleys of the Park, you can admire the numerous fountains and architecture of the Royal Exhibition Centre, here and there peeping from behind the trees. Two small lakes adorn the southern part of the Park. In the Northern part houses a Museum, tennis courts, house curator and playgrounds for children, designed in the form of a labyrinth.

Three main fountain in the Park is an Exhibition Fountain, erected in 1880, the French Fountain and the Fountain Westgarth Drinking.

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