Melbourne is a cosmopolitan city founded in 1835, and home to 3.5 million people. The city is renowned as much for its fine Victorian-era architecture as it's cutting-edge, modern buildings.

Melbourne sits at the top of Port Phillip Bay with the Yarra River passing through it's suburbs. It is surrounded by parks and bushland to the east, grasslands to the west and agricultural country to the north.

Melbourne is a major Australian centre for manufacturing, the arts, and sports.