Culture Capital Free Walking Tour
6pm, click ‘Join a tour’ to find out what days we walk
- Click 'Join a tour' for times
- 1½ hour walking tour
- FREE (Pay what you think it's worth)
- Tour starts at the State Library of Victoria (on Swanston St, next to the Sir Redmond Barry statue)
Explore hidden lanes & arcades
Join your local guide as we leave the beaten path behind. We’ll uncover the secrets behind Melbourne’s famous culture as we take you through some of the best hidden laneways, arcades and architecture to discover the local and alternative side to Melbourne.
What we'll cover
– Diverse Street Art
– Coffee Culture
– Old and New Architecture
– Laneway Transformation and Planning
– Hidden Bar Culture
– Live Music Scene
– Indigenous Culture
– Multicultural Influences
– Protests & Entrepreneurs
– Environmental initiatives
– Melbourne Town Hall
– General Post Office
– Australian Rules Football
– Presgrave Place
– Postal Lane
– Union Lane
– Manchester Unity Building
– AC/DC Lane
– Coromandel Lane
– Caledonian Lane
– Russell Place
– Rainbow Alley
– Drewery Lane
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All I’m Free guides are experienced and knowledgeable locals who are excited to show you around their hometown.
We’re all about being real! Each of us will share with you our honest, local advice about where to explore, eat or drink. We are never paid to promote or advertise to you.
To give back to the community around us, 5% of all tour profits are donated to a local charity chosen by all the guides.
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FAQs
We currently require bookings so that we can manage numbers and safety during the pandemic.
Once we can, we will return to allowing people to show up to a tour time that suits them. Until then you can book online and we’ll see you soon.
Nope. Not due to weather, we walk rain, hail or shine, and that’s saying something in Melbourne!
We do however, take the current health situation very seriously. In the unlikely event that your guide is at all unwell before the tour and we can’t replace the guide at short notice we may have reschedule. Equally if you’re not feeling well please let us know and we’ll be happy to reschedule your booking to another time when you’re feeling 100%.
Yes. The ‘Culture Capital’ tour is accessible to both pram and wheelchairs.
It is a walking tour. This tour is about 2.5km (1.5 miles) in total and we walk at a leisurely pace, stopping to speak at regular intervals along the way.
Currently we only offer tours in English.
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