City Baths
Melbourne City Baths is a total health, fitness and wellbeing centre. A triangular piece of land on the corner of Swanston and Franklin Streets was chosen and the City Baths was opened on 9 January 1860. People flocked to the baths and it was reported that 79,096 men and 2,950 women enjoyed the facilities in the first year.
Set in a beautiful and historically significant building, the Melbourne City Baths boasts one of the largest and most diverse ranges of services, activities, equipment and programs on offer in the heart of the city.
Melbourne City Baths aims to promote an awareness of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and to provide quality opportunities to enhance the health, fitness and wellbeing of the people who work, live, study and visit the City of Melbourne.
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Melbourne City Centre
The city centre is a combination of modern high-rise and beautiful historical buildings. Melbourne’s city centre is very well laid out in a grid. Latrobe St borders the north, Flinders St the south, Spring St the east and Spencer St the west. The city centre is filled with amazing eateries, not all of them in obvious locations. The smaller city streets hide some of the best Greek, Italian and other cosmopolitan eateries.
China Town occupies two blocks of the city, starting at the corner of Swanston and Little Bourke streets. The Bourke St Mall sits between Swanston and Elizabeth
Bondi Beach
Australia’s most famous beach, is located in the suburb of Bondi, in the Municipality of Waverley, seven kilometres from the centre of Sydney. Bondi is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning the sound of breaking waves. There are Aboriginal Rock carvings on the northern end of the beach at Ben Buckler and south of Bondi Beach near McKenzies Beach on the coastal walk. Bondi Beach is approximately one kilometre long. The width of Bondi Beach averages 50m at the north end, widening out to 100m at the south end. It is the widest beach in the Sydney region.
Telstra Tower
A landmark of Canberra, Telstra Tower is the compass of the city; always letting you know where you are. Also called Black Mountain Tower, this modern pinnacle of technology rises from the centre of Canberra Nature Park and offers panoramic views of the city and surrounding countryside.
Rising 195 metres above the summit of Black Mountain, the tower was opened in 1980 and provides vital communication facilities for Canberra. The tower provides both inside and outside viewing galleries, a telecommunications museum, cafe, revolving restaurant and gift shop.
Albany
Established in 1826, Albany was the first colonial settlement in what is now WA. Albany is proud of its history; the tourist office has information on the dozens of buildings of historic interest. Though surrounded by gorgeous, uncrowded beaches, the city itself is the commercial center of the Great Southern region. Albany offers all of the conveniences—and annoyances—of a small city, with plenty of shops and cafes, but also increasing traffic and congestion, making Stirling Range perhaps a better choice for an overnight stay.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION Albany's main drag is York St. The tourist office is in the Old Railway
ADELAIDE
Once known only for its inordinate number of churches, Adelaide has emerged as a city with far more to offer than an uplifting Sunday sermon. The first completely planned city in Australia, in the first state not to be settled by convict labor, Adelaide Was destined to be different from the other Australian capitals. The one million peo¬ple who call Adelaide home take pride in the city's big leafy trees, historic buildings, and flourishing arts scene, and enjoy a big-city lifestyle that belies the lower cost of living. The long list of cultural attractions, headed by the Adelaide Festival of
