Footscray

Worth seeing in and around Footscray

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Victoria University

   Victoria University is an Australian public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It is a dual-sector university, providing courses in both higher education and technical and further education.

   600 m · dual-sector public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Scienceworks

   Scienceworks is one of Australia’s leading science museums located in Spotswood, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. It is one of three museums operated by Museums Victoria.

   3.6 km · science museum in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Bolte Bridge

   The Bolte Bridge is a twin cantilever road bridge across the Yarra River and Victoria Harbour, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The bridge carries the Melbourne CityLink via eight lanes of traffic – four lanes northbound and four lanes southbound.

   3.6 km · bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Melbourne

   The Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral also called Sts.

   3.9 km · church in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
5. 05
   St Aloysius' College

   St Aloysius College is a Roman Catholic, co-educational secondary day school in North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was established by the Sisters of Mercy in 1887.

   3.9 km · Catholic secondary college, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Melbourne's Living Museum of the West

   Melbourne's Living Museum of the West is a community history, culture and ecomuseum, located in Maribyrnong, a western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The focus of the museum is to document, preserve and interpret the industrial, environmental, social and Indigenous history of the western suburbs of Melbourne.

   2.8 km · culture museum in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Highpoint Shopping Centre

   Highpoint Shopping Centre is a shopping centre located in Maribyrnong, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Highpoint is Victoria's third largest shopping centre and the fifth largest in Australia, with an annual turnover of $778 million and over 15 million shoppers visiting each year.

   3.2 km · shopping centre in Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Coode Canal

   Coode Canal is a reach of the lower Yarra River in Melbourne, the capital city of the Australian state of Victoria. The canal was excavated in 1886, as part of harbour improvements designed by Sir John Coode to improve access for ships to Melbourne's main river docks.

   1.8 km · canal in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Heavenly Queen Temple

   The Heavenly Queen Temple is a Chinese folk religious temple dedicated to Mazu or Tian Shang Sheng Mu, Chinese Goddess of Sea and patron deity of fishermen, sailors and any occupations related to the sea or ocean. She is also regarded as an ancestral deity of the Lim Clan.

   1.3 km · Taoist temple in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
10. 10
    The District Docklands

    The District Docklands is a mixed-use entertainment precinct in the inner-west of Melbourne.

    3.6 km · shopping mall in Docklands, Victoria · Wikipedia

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Getting to Footscray

Airports

Melbourne (MEL), 15 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 46 km

Stations

North Melbourne, 3.7 km · Q14935250, 2.9 km · Flemington Bridge, 3.7 km · Macaulay, 3.2 km · Showgrounds, 2.3 km

• Geelong/Melbourne → Footscray

  11 km · quickest by road, 29 min · A$1.5–2
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• Hobart (Cambridge) → Footscray

  602 km · quickest by air, 4h 31m · A$190–280
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• Adelaide → Footscray

  648 km · quickest by air, 4h 48m · A$200–300
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