What is Victoria Market famous for?
The queen victoria market (also known colloquially as the vic market or queen vic) is a major landmark and public marketplace in the central business district (cbd) of melbourne, victoria, australia. Covering over seven hectares (17 acres), it is the largest open air market in the southern hemisphere. queen victoria market is an authentic, bustling, inner-city market that has been the heart and soul of melbourne for 140 years. Home to over 600 small businesses, it is a great place to discover fresh and specialty produce, hand-made and unique products, great coffee and food, souvenirs and clothing.
Is Victoria a good queen?
Many Victorians admired their queen’s reign for its stable government at home, and enormous expansion abroad. Since then, her descendants, and the descendants of her subjects, have been left with a feeling that Victoria’s reign was a time when Britain was truly great. Queen Victoria is associated with Britain’s great age of industrial expansion, economic progress and, especially, empire. At her death, it was said, Britain had a worldwide empire on which the sun never set.