Canberra is the capital of Australia, but before it was chosen as such the capital was Melbourne. Melbourne It was the capital between 1901 and 1927 and a couple of years ago it was chosen as the best city in the world to live in.
Before the arrival of the Europeans, the lands of the current city were occupied by two aboriginal tribes, but the English arrived in 1803 and took advantage of the wealth of the area in terms of food and water. In reality, there were several attempts to found a settlement and the first ones failed.
It was not until 1835 that an adventurer from present-day Tasmania managed to get some aborigines to give him land on the banks of the Yarra River and thus a first town was born. It was hand in hand with the Gold Rush in the 50s that Melbourne it grew as a port and later as an industrial center of the state of Victoria.
In 1901, Melbourne it was chosen as the national capital of the Federation of Australia, a state it retained until 1927 when construction of the planned city of Canberra was completed. The '80s were not very good for the city, unemployment, emigration, but in the' 90s it was reborn thanks to important government projects and in a few years Melbourne became the best city in the world to live ... and visit.
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