Flitzroy Gardens

01.03.2009

The Fitzroy Gardens are 26 hectares (64 acres) located on the southeastern edge of the Melbourne Central Business District in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The gardens are one of the major Victorian era landscaped gardens in Australia and add to Melbourne's claim to being the garden city of Australia.

Set within the gardens are:

an ornamental lake
kiosk and cafe
Conservatory
Cooks' Cottage - a house where James Cook reputedly spent some years of his childhood (the cottage was in England at that time).
Sinclair’s Cottage (Visitor information)
Model Tudor village
Fountains and sculptures
Band Pavilion
the Rotunda
the fairy tree