Portal:Australia/Featured picture/Week 27, 2008

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The Royal Exhibition Building, showing the fountain on the southern or Carlton Gardens side of the building.

The Royal Exhibition Building is located in Victorian capital of Melbourne. Situated in the Carlton Gardens, at the north-eastern edge of the central business district, it was completed in 1880 for the Melbourne International Exhibition. It was also the site of the the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia with the opening of the first Parliament of Australia.

Photo credit: Diliff

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