Melbourne is known as an Australian cultural and sport capital.
The choice was based on cultural attributes, climate, cost of living, and social conditions such as crime rates and health care, in 2002.
The city celebrates a wide variety of annual cultural events, performing arts and architecture. Melbourne is also considered to be Australia’s live music capital with a large proportion of successful Australian artists emerging from the Melbourne live music scene.
Melbourne is home to some of the nation’s oldest educational institutions, including the oldest Law (1857), Engineering (1860), Medical (1862), Dental(1897) and Music(1891) schools, all at the University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne is also the oldest university in Victoria and the second oldest university in Australia.
Melbourne has an integrated public transportsystem known as Metlink, originally laid out late in the 19th century when trains and trams were the primary methods of travelling to the suburbs.