| Birrarung Marr | FREE | Call venue for more details
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Every day between Wednesday 28 May 2008 and Thursday 28 May 2009
From the earliest days of European settlement
in the 1830s, Alexandra Gardens was used
for timber cutting, cattle grazing and as a
brickmakers’ field. This led to the formation
of lagoons where brickmakers’ pits were filled
with the seasonal floods from the Yarra River.
Birrarung Marr, Melbourne’s newest park,
opened in 2002. It’s located next to Federation
Square and is one of the closest parks to the
city centre. Just across the Yarra River are the
Alexandra Gardens, which were laid out in
1904. Together, these ‘old’ and ‘new’ style parks
form a wonderful area of parkland focused on
the Yarra River.