Queen Victoria Market

The Queen Victoria Market is reputed to the southern hemisphere’s largest open-air market offering a variety of fresh farm produce and, on Sundays, a wider range of merchant items which turn the market into a modern Arabian Nights bazaar.
The Queen Victoria Market is an historic Melbourne landmark and a Melbourne institution dating back to more than 120 years ago.
It hasn’t been just a market. At different times in the past it has been a cemetery, a livestock market and a place to sell fruit and vegetables wholesale. Here we have a huge varieties of cheeses.
More lollies to sink your teeth in.
And fresh fruits and vegetables at low low prices.
There are stalls selling plants like cacti here...
Street performers like this band here from South America...
Playground for the kids...
Sheds full of traders selling anything from clocks...
...to framed pictures; classical or...
...contemporary.

The Queen Victoria Market is sited on seven hectares located in two city blocks, the Lower Market bounded by Elizabeth, Victoria, Queen and Therry Sts, and the Upper Market by Queen, Victoria, Peel and Franklin Sts.

The Queen Victoria Market trading hours are 6am to 2pm on Tuesday and Thursday; 6am to 6pm (with the general merchandise section closing at 4pm) on Friday; 6am to 3pm on Saturday; and 9am to 4pm on Sunday.