The Parliament Gardens, designed by William Guilfoyle, follows a European style; it includes a tennis court and a bowling green. The Federal Oak, a tree planted by Sir Henry Parkes in 1890, stands tall inside A notable ‘oriental-style’ pavilion that was part of the 1890 Australian Federation Conference photographs remain to this day. Garden Tours are available for free.
The Victorian State government, awash with wealth from gold and wool exports, commissioned architect Peter Kerr to design a building in the Roman revival style. The Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council chambers were the first to be completed in 1856. Significant works were subsequently built until the 1930s. Architecture Tours are free but is subject to availability. Check out the second part of this post: Parliament of Victoria
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Beautiful photos :-). Well worth a visit next time I am in Melbourne.
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Thank you for the compliment; it is a lovely place to visit.
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How do you take photos like that? They look awesome! Mine turns out not very interesting hahaha! – Jon
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Appreciate the kind words. My initial photos were pretty standard. I noticed that it gradually improved over time as I took more and more photos for this blog. Hope that helps.
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Wonderful! Would love to go and see it!
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That’s nice of you to say. Hope you do get to visit.
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As always, lovely pictures with historical nuggets to whet our appetites to learn more. Especially for me because I live in the USA and have never traveled (I should say yet) to your country.
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I’m glad you liked it. There will be a part II to this as it would be too long to fit all the photos in one post. Stay tuned.
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I will!
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since I am The Spoiled QUEEN, I would not mind to move to such place! 🙂
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Hope you do get to move to such a place.
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Beautiful details.
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Appreciate the sentiment and the comment.
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Hi, the photographs of the interior of Parliament House are impressive. I especially liked the mosaics.
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That’s kind of you to say. It was a challenge to shoot the interiors well in those lighting conditions.
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what camera are you using? 🙂
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I used a Canon 1200D with 200 mm Tamron lens. It works well on action shots too, like this post I did: http://wp.me/p5eBpq-B7
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